skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you require that every vocabulary definition be obvious and intuitive to you before you make an effort to understand the effect being described? Fields other than your own have jargon with its own history and justification, it seems a shallow basis to dismiss data on.

Anyway no one "wants you" to understand anything and won't shape the world so that it's comfortable for you to. If you choose not to try that's on you.
That's the intention. Suggesting that there is something wrong with that is implying that it is not designed to be that way. People barely struggling to stay afloat means the system is close to an optimized state. If people have any excesses, it means there's more fat to trim away.
"As we discussed earlier, even at $300 the product is too cheap. The sign should have likely been selling at $600 from the very beginning."

Even at $600 - there's a screenshot saying the company had three engineers and a marketer.

If your 4 employees earn $25k per annum, with the $150 parts cost you'd have to sell 222 signs at $600. And if the employees were on $100k, that's 888 signs a year.

That's a heck of a lot of signs, at the price. And you'd have to keep hitting those sales targets so long as you wanted the API to stay up.

It would make much more sense if the business was a one-engineer passion project - someone who had a day job and did a few hours a week maintaining this as a side project would have much more achievable sales targets!
Sure. While I don't disagree, there are hundreds of thousands of finely adjustable chemistries available in metal and polymer already, including composite materials. It is far more likely the OP will iterate toward an appropriate material from known chemistries rather than invent a new one.
I failed to find a citation in your own comment.
Even cheaper than a flight and chump change compared to a private helicopter. Apples to oranges.
There is a URL safe version of base64 that uses - and _ instead. Base64 tools can be more readily available.
Yes. Plus a kid. Because that's what society relies on in the end, that we don't stop existing after a generation because it was too expensive.
Delta Airlines has improved drastically, both financially and in terms of the product since their current CEO, Ed Bastien who is an accountant, took over.

Meanwhile, Boeing sold deadly products under leadership by their engineer CEO.

I see the "bean counter bad" narrative a lot here, but I don't think it's that black and white.
That sounds like what I have here in the Netherlands. It can be used as a microwave, a small oven/toaster, or both simultaneously. It came with a special tray that is metal but also microwave safe for use with the dual mode.

The only way that it differs from a normal convection oven, is the lack of preheat options. If you want to "preheat", then you turn it on, wait 5 minutes for the compartment to come up to temperature, then add your tray of food.
Author here: This is interesting to me. I usually solve all the multi-cursor usage with a range based search and replace (that it's supported in ecode by selecting the range and Ctr/Cmd + F to search and replace over that range). I would like to see how it's used by other users to have a better idea on how it should behave a multi-cursor feature. If you know how to record a video of you editing in the way you explained it would be awesome to see it.
Thanks
I suspect that AI will produce stuff that is 'regression to the mean' bland. That is, it will take whatever it has learned about human expression and emit some center-of-the-road ordinary stuff.

This story highlights that with tired selection of adjectives, routine irrelevant inclusion of ancillary characters and no original ideas.

The AI doesn't seem to 'get it' that a Sherlock Holmes story is characterized by originality, novel dialog between Holmes and Watson and tortuous logic. It doesn't attempt to do anything Sherlockian, except use wording similar to other stories.

I suppose a text generator cannot be faulted for generating adequate text. But to call it an AI is a stretch, as it shows no understanding of the genre beyond superficial. And the 'I' in 'AI' is supposed to be for Intelligence.
This reminds me (from a long time ago) of seeing IT department stick names of jungle animals on computers so they can be recognized on the network.

These days, there are many cases where _instances_ of something are given random "cute" names. A particular server will have a suitable-for-work but fun name slapped on, like "grumpy goat".

Hover, I can't imagine _classes_ of something following that kind of naming convention. This post seems to be more about _queue_ names or _service_ names. Software DOES intentionally use cute and random names for big-ticket items (see "git"). It would be confusing to apply this practice to more minor software, because it would be too many to remember.

If I have a service as a part of an app that consumes data from a redis queue and sends it to a log collector, a fully descriptive name is distasteful, but I wouldn't want to name it "anteater" because even if my mental picture is vivid, other people will... not get it. I'd call it "log-passer" or something.
Or

- Spend less on stuff than they assumed is necessary in a hand-wavy calculation
I highly recommend lap swimming as a general physical/mental sharpening exercise you can do with virtually zero joint or other injury risk your whole life.

I had the good fortune of being coached for a brief period by this guy: https://magazine.wsu.edu/2009/08/11/channel-swimmer/ Having that kind of an example was awesome.

The downside of swimming is trekking out to a pool and finding a time when lap swim lanes are open, and climbing the learning barrier if you’re completely new. In my experience, a lot swimmers also tend to be instinctually quiet, standoffish and very competitive, which can be very intimidating if you’re going for a lap swim as a newbie. Especially if it’s crowded and someone wants to lane share.

But there’s almost always a time slot somewhere when it’s virtually empty, or a friendly lane sharing buddy who’s relatively new/not doing flip turns and stuff, or a friendly expert who’s casual and happy to give learners a wide berth. A local YMCA or one in a neighboring area is usually the most friendly place to start swimming, but I think a decent number of big commercial gyms have pools too, and universities/schools sometimes have public lap swim times as well. And if you’re completely new/never learned to swim, lesson instructors often LOVE private adult lessons because they actually listen/you don’t have to additionally do baby sitting/kid wrangling. I lifeguarded for a bit and taught swimming, and liked teaching kids too, but adults were so much more relaxing.

It’s absolutely worth climbing those barriers. Especially if you get one of these: https://www.underwateraudio.com/products/waterproof-ipod-shu...

I haven’t really checked the landscape post covid, though. I’m guessing a lot of places with pools got hit really hard. All the more reason to get out and find/support one, they’re a really awesome community resource.

Speaking of which, I’ve turned into a stressed out couch potato/haven’t been to a pool since covid, I should take my own advice and get back out there.
> he shouldn't take a personalized Sourcehut-only exception because this doesn't address the core issue for any new small providers that pop up

Exactly. We already saw how this ended with Google vs. people running mail servers.
Could you share more about how you "gained 50k users for my app with NO marketing"?
> defines things in such a way that it's clear that the output of a machine learning algorithm is also subject to the license

Can you do this within copyright laws? (i.e. is it enforceable?) How are you sure?

For instance I could write a license that says that any code you wrote with a screen you've also used for displaying my code should be put under this license, but I'm pretty sure it would not be enforceable.

(another question: how is your license both permissive and viral?)
I've migrated multiple companies away from RS, usually to AWS. Very easy workloads and RS was charging them way too much without any useful support. This isn't surprising.
One can determine that something is large without measuring it accurately.
Does MS think they have a big moat in these? It won't be long until we have an open version , and although they need a lot of compute , maybe in 1-2 years they ll have come down in size enough to be usable. Is it the training data?
> Some cost 1000 USD for no apparent reason

What you're paying for is durability.

Sure, you can get a $100 chair from your local office supply store that looks and feels like a $1,000 Herman Miller, but you'll find that the mesh seating starts to sag after a year. Or one of the chair legs will break. Or the air cylinder will fail.

I've abused my Steelcase Think (Was ~$850 when I bought it in 2017) and it still feels rock solid.
The thing is, you don't need the equivalent of a rack for cooking with induction.

There are countless things like these https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=Induction+stove&iax=images&...

I tried such a single 'hot plate' out of curiosity when they were on offer at ALDI for €29,90 more than 10 years ago. And my mind was blown.

The only limitation I can think of is that your wall outlet should be able to deliver 2000 to 2500W, for a single coil.
So one such outlet, for one such coil. Or three phase alternating current for the range. But the same constraints apply to normal electrical stoves.

Mobile 'single coil' systems like that are still available cheaply.
I build something similar https://sschueller.github.io/posts/vbz-fahrgastinformation/ but with way less BOM and I keep getting asked that I should sell them. The primary reason I don't is because I don't want to support something like that for the next 10 years...
And if you're in a position where you have to manage petabytes+ of logs using on-prem hardware, SSDs are probably a small part of your overall budget!
Yet for some reason I never hear about people complaining that some idiot chose a file system to be the database for their application . I do hear quite often, disdain for the choice of MongoDB.
Sharing my own anecdata: my Oura ring shows that on days I drink, RHR is 10bpm higher and HRV about 15ms lower. Exercise has a huge impact on sleep quality too.

My theory is that when you're young, your body has a much wider margin for error. A few drinks or sloppy exercise routines never seemed to impact my work. As I've aged, the margin has shrunk, and now there's a measurable effect that I can no longer ignore. Aging is in itself a handicap, but now after too many drinks, the next day both my cognitive sharpness and motivation to even care about shoveling bits around a network have declined.

Now I need to actively stack the deck in my favor, rather that engaging in behaviors that further handicap myself. So that means exercise, a sleep routine, zero alcohol most days of the week, reducing stress, all that goddamn stuff I never had to worry about ;)

Another way to think of it is this: at 40 or 50, can you afford to be lugging around a 20% RHR penalty all day? That will surely come home to roost, probably in the form of atherosclerosis. Remember the most common clinical presentation for a heart attack sufferer is not chest pain, but being dead on arrival.

I bring this up because it's worth nothing that our bodies and minds are remarkably good at covering up problems until far too late. When you get those early warning signals (high RHR, feeling of cognitive decline, etc) trust your body, be proactive, and employ countermeasures.
> This is one of the hardest problems in software development

and that is one of the worst fallacies in software development

naming things is not hard, people regularly give things terrible abstract names because they act like it'll never be possible to rename it and then add a 3-4 word comment above describing what it does

if they just named it what the comment says then they'd have a fine name
You are looking at a Nokia 3210 generation of AI.The most primitive version of what is to come. So the fact that the novelty has worn off is not really a good indicator of how much this will transform our everyday lives. Wait for the iPhone generation of AI, always in your pocket, interacting with you multiple times a day, changing how you consume news, how you communicate with the outside world, your friends and family.
That converts to 8.82 kWh per litre, since this is about the UK.

Average petrol price is currently £1.50/L, so the figure is £0.17/kWh.

£0.17/kWh was a typical price a few years ago, but nowadays you'll only get that at night (with a suitable meter to measure time-of-day usage). Another comment claims 10p/kWh at night on a special tariff for EV owners.
There is absolutely no one I know who uses a tablet as their primary work computer. No one. That analogy instantly breaks down because of this. As if everyone drives to work primarily using their trucks.

The even more sad thing is that the iPad hardware is absolutely capable to be the primary computer for people. It's simply Apples refusal to allow a real OS to run on it that keeps holding it back.
> I could link meta analyses about how strong the link between increased weight and CVD is as one example, but I don't think you're really looking to change your mind.

You could not say that you could do something if you don't plan to do it, and you could avoid blaming the person you're arguing with for your failure to produce evidence that supports your point instead. Try making it complicated.
Technically it'd be a DDoS, but however distributed it is makes no difference to what we're talking about here. If you could respond to substance, it'd be appreciated.
She seems of higher quality than what other user report. Preventative maintenance is good (indeed cleaning requires fine training), unnecessary, costly, potentially harmful procedures isn't.
This exists in many places, it's not unique to New York City. In general what this means is one of three things:

1. Cash businesses that don't report income for taxation, so get to make effectively 40-50% more income from their revenue. In this case, I am using the term "business" to refer any income-generating activity for which you are not employed by another person. Yes, this counts the dude selling loosies.

2. A business which is itself illegal because of the nature of what you are selling. This could be as deep as narcotics, or as simple as trucking in cigarettes from out of state so you can sell them at a street news stand and pocket the difference in what would be otherwise taxes going to the state/city.

3. Being paid under the table, this includes things like illegal immigrants working on construction crews, as hotel maids, and back of house in restaurants, getting paid out at the end of the night on a daily basis ("day labor") in cash, never reporting any income for tax purposes.

Generally speaking, when someone says "illegal economy" in a place like New York City, what they mean is the sort of petty tax evasion that naturally occurs amongst immigrant communities and the poor who would otherwise not be able to afford to reside/live there if they paid their taxes in full. New York City is effectively the highest taxation regime you can live in within the US. Major metros in California come close, but are not quite there. If you avoid every tax except sales tax, you can significantly improve your income potential at lower wages. It's the difference between taking home $17/hr or taking home $12/hr after tax, that extra $5/hr is nothing to be sneezed at, and amounts to an extra $10k/yr in your pocket if you work enough hours to be considered "full time" (which in the illegal economy usually means multiple "jobs" or hustles).
This is the current failure mode of many automotive companies. As institutions they see software as something you sprinkle on top of hardware platforms using a process optimized for hardware.
It was gambling for everyone. Investors just had more to lose, more options to help hedge, and, in theory, more financial knowledge.

It's not a commodity, and it's utility as a currency was debatable.
Totoally relate to most of the things he tells,

Why would my oven need wifi?

Watching movies which I enjoy the most is now game of guessing which service has it. I am preferring theatre nowadays like old times.
Your list is very similar to mine: https://kevincox.ca/2021/03/23/good-names/

I agree. The uniqueness and stability of a name is key. Then making is not mislead is good. Then being descriptive is nice.

I think the article is hitting on descriptive names can become misleading over time. People will think that a descriptive name is helpful, even if it was poorly chosen or is no longer accurate.
That kind of thinking is useful when examining other system failures; AND it can be important to consider "let's assume this other factor had prevented the disaster, how could we have still identified the underlying 'cause'".

Because if your ass is being repeatedly saved by the equivalent of a $0.50 zip tie, you probably want to know that.
I don't have any other interests, really. This is why I am thinking of going into CS again. I don't know what else I'd like to do in life. Honestly.

In person-courses in my country are less expensive than online courses, but I'm working atm, which is why I am looking into online college.

Also, most other degrees don't have the same employability as CS.
Calling 40 years ago “history” is actually “disdain for history”.

History is not what you can find at an older cousin's place. History is what someone had to make an effort to save for you, and you cannot experience it any more.
In my experience the sql guys were laughing because they knew mongo was a fad and not an actual replacement.
Here are 5 I have recently read that I really enjoyed:

1. "When Genius Failed": about the failure of the hedge-fund LTCM

2. "The First Tycoon": Detailing Vanderbilt's life (he was a bad-ass businessman). Far more interesting than I expected.

3. "Made in America": I didn't really care about walmart or Sam Walton before reading this, but he's a man to be admired.

4. "Barbarians at the Gate": Private equity tries the largest hostile takeover ever (dramatic and exciting with a hilarious group of characters).

5. "The Smartest Guys in the Room": Enron was an absurd company run by absurd people. Jeff Skilling claims he didn't do anything wrong.
> Don't forget its ever increasing wack a mole game of non-openness in regards to censorship, wrongthink and pornography.

That's because they want to make money, good luck attracting investors when your tool lists benefits of Nazi ideology or generates minor porn novels.
> It's still a chunk less than a ~180 mile train ticket

Yes, after you've paid a premium for the vehicle. By the same logic is cheaper to take the bicycle, but we are not comparing apples to oranges.
I don't see exactly what will blow their mind about TikTok.
Perhaps these citations will be more to your liking:

https://news.google.com/search?q=ev+charger+theft
Snippet from my reply to a similar sibling comment:

Sorry, I'm not meaning to say that people aren't getting paid enough. My phrasing choice of "actual problem" was poor. I'll leave it up so this thread makes sense.

My intended point was: if we want to understand whether peoples' lives are sustainable with their present wages in NYC, we should be measuring their actual wages, which is inclusive of this grey economy, unlike the reported data source.

The amount of "tax fraud" required to impact the figure is less than one might imagine, because the "living wage" standard is quite low.
Smart parking development implies an IoT-based system that sends data about free and occupied parking places via web/mobile application. The IoT-device, including sensors and microcontrollers, is located in each parking place. The user receives a live update about the availability of all parking places and chooses the best one. Learn more about how to build an IoT-based smart parking system.
Go into custom development. In that area, the dumber you are, the more you make because you get closer to your clients.
It is probably a rounding error for white collar and technology workers (the crowd here.) However, I'd doubt this is a rounding error for other trades (construction, electrical, plumbing, etc) -- so many repairmen demand cash or demand premiums if paying via Zelle/etc.
ChatGPT has progressively got worse due to all the restrictions.
Replace the F from Facebook with the M from Meta and now we can have "MANGO" which is an acronym that would absolutely catch.
> American issues with food always amaze me.

Why? It's no mystery.

From a very young age American children are trained to associate daily activities with food. Americans have a food for everything and that food is present, in abundance, wherever profit is to be had.

(Seriously, list an activity and I'll reply with at least one food pairing.)

Ask any dedicated American dieter how challenging it is to go out with friends or visit family without being put in multiple situations in which they are the only one not eating or eating something far healthier than everyone else.

This requires willpower of which no person has an unlimited reserve.

The basis for obesity is undeniably food addiction. How can we expect addicts to fight uphill against a system and a culture which has evolved to profit from their failure?
I just want to say that I love that you did this. You have great skills and you used them for good. I've never seen such a clearly white-hat hack :)

People's stuff will work again thanks to you and you should feel great about it!
"Crypto Industry" only has investors. I have not seen an actual cryptocurrency user that says "I'm here to use this thing"
It's not normal decline at 40. You have a few decades more of programming if you want them. (I'm calling that out first because you put it in the HN headline all the 23yo founder techbros will see.)

Get a doctor visit to start addressing your concerns, like you're determined to fix it. And you mean actively fix it, not make a notation in your record and plan to do another checkup in a year.

If you WFH, make sure don't have CO2 or other air quality problems.

Make sure you're exercising, getting solid sleep on a regular schedule, maybe cutting out caffeine, and maybe ask doctor for nutritionist referral.

Also consider that the problem might be motivation. Maybe you see nothing interesting or worthwhile in porting someone else's hugely complicated API bureaucracy from one language to another.