skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wildly overpriced compared to building it yourself or compared to other PC building companies?

Both actually, the markup is extremely high on their stuff if you try to get a gaming rig from them.

I built all my PCs since I was 13, and I can say it's not as involved as people think. You really kinda screw in the motherboard, pop in a cpu, and a graphics card/ssd (or if you have no need for a discrete GPU and you get one of those CPUs with decent integrated graphics, you are basically only popping in a CPU). There is like two wires that go from your PSU to mobo at best. The thing is pc hardware prices are already absurd since Covid, so when you add in this extra markup on labor, you are just getting something that's way beyond normal prices. You might look at a $1600 price tag and scoff at it as nothing, but its really a $800 dollar machine with all this extra stuff added or marked up. I've seen people look at $2000 pre built machines and just think they are crazy for buying at that price. It's like ... I don't even think its a money thing, it's like a scammy thing. Imagine if I show up and sell you a iPhone 10 at iphone 14 prices. It's the principle of the matter.

You know, there are some afternoons where I don't know what to do with myself. Setting up/building a PC is an hour for me. If it's new to you, it might be an afternoons worth of work. It's not an endless multi day fiasco, I promise.
It's not "reality" though. As you said, it's entirely based on anecdotal evidence, which leads to things like the CEO making false accusations.

There might be a version of this system that works, but currently Citizen is not it. I suspect that nobody will be able to get it right until they remove the money and focus on credible reporting.
It's what we should use.
I came here to say the same haha
World’s only sleeping bank website
When engineering teams are working hard to increase the uptime of their service. This banks approach is funny to ask customers to visit the next day.
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Where does the road paved with evil intentions go?
Also a lot of people too easily fall for clickbait framing and they missed the point of the article, which is that layoffs have a lot of detrimental effects on people, don't always help the company, and can be sort of a cargo cult response to economic downturns. Instead they focused on the professor ignoring the actual economic causes, which is a fair critique but not the article's main thesis.
People who actually live in high crime areas know how useless 911 and the police are, and don't rely on them for their safety. Gunshots don't get called in in these areas; they're just background noise.

Life's way too short to have the police scanner on as constant chatter in your home. I've also literally never met anyone in my life who's done this. You really think everyone should live like this?
+1...but modern medical costs need to be specifically called out, too.
Depending on where you work, you might find yourself required to take vacation a full week at a time. My job (in the US) does, because we can only have two people (of 11) on vacation per day, and before the week-at-a-time rule was implemented, certain employees would immediately sign out (nearly) every Monday or Friday of the month, meaning that nobody else could take a full week off.
God damn that is one ugly motherfucker. Why in the world is anyone still squeezing useless numpads onto laptops???
Giving away money doesn't cause inflation. Printing money does though. If he was printing money specifically to finance this it would be causing extra inflation.
Lines up with the narrative that the fraud was mostly a desperate attempt to get out of a financial mismanagement situation, rather than to simply steal money from people.
Huh, you're right; there's no 7x4xU. But a 15.6" laptop should have an HS processor anyway. System76 is cheaping out by using a 6800U.
Can confirm. I am in New England. The startup cost was about $1000 for me, including coop, coop reinforcements, chickens, feed, and various misc equipment. I have 8 hens and basically if I sold a year’s worth of eggs I could break even. That’s sold, not eaten, because I could sell for roughly double the grocery store price.

So realistically the difference is that I get fresh eggs every day, I never run out, and they are fun.
Inflation cooled in December, bolstering hopes US can avert recession
It seems like this could be handled by having a short post with a link to the article for each article that authors want to publish that way.

This is essentially how blogs are promoted on Twitter and Mastodon already (though people often create longer threads) so it's a "paving the cowpaths" strategy.

Since you can do it already, the only difference would be having an official short post representing the article, which would be a focal point for discussion about the article.

For better or worse. Maybe having a focal point for article discussion is bad?
The actual doing of the work isn't pleasant. I like everyone fine, team members, team leads, execs. None of the people bother me. It's the processes and day to day work. It's just a shitty slog. I'd give anything for an infinite list of well written jira tickets that I could just grind through forever. I hate the fog of work which only has 1/2 a sprint of visibility. I don't need a mission statement or buy-in. I just want to be a cog in an actually functioning machine.
Plenty of promising shows got cancelled after Season 1 back in the pre-streaming days too. Firefly is the quintessential example. The opposite can be worse though. Stargate SG-1 did not need 10 seasons. I think Abed had it right: 6 seasons and a movie is the ideal. Of course, once Donald Glover left, that show became a tired repeat too.

I actually really liked the latest season of Stranger Things. Season 3 was the one that I really struggled with. Sure, I get that the kids are teenagers now, but why does that mean that the adults have to have dumb teenage drama too?
Lex Fridman on Twitter: “Changing your mind should be celebrated
It's not just Sinatra. Devise, AFAIK, has been a staple for authentication and authorization and rails (or at least in blog posts it has) and in Rails 7 it seemed like it complicated things more than helped and I can do all the secure handling pretty easily in Rails.
At least it's on-brand.
Context: 40s male who has $wifie and $son. Has some programming skills, half education and half self-taught.

I'll probably do the following if I only need to work 2-6 hours per week:

- Take nap to balance chronic sleep deprivation since $son is allocated;

- Go back to exercise routine to pick up my two 30m of rowing machine every day;

- Spend one more hour with $son every day;

- Plan more gift purchase for $wifie. It actually requires a lot of thoughts;

- Complete my Dragonlance game which is a Ultima-I/II spinoff;

- Complete my CHIP-8 emulator;

- Get serious about designing a series of lab similar to the CPU project of UTokyo, but tailored to my incompetence and steadily increase difficulty with each one. I probably need 3 labs;

- Visit my friends more often. I only spoke to them once per quarter.
What I fail to believe is that you don't have an intuition for 72 F or 30 F, etc.

What I can believe, but would be nonetheless very surprised by, is that you have better intuition for 28 C, 25 C than you do for the equivalent Fahrenheit units if you were raised in the US.
Agreed. 1080 is probably a good proportion, but I'd prefer 4k resolution at 200% than native 1080.
In eastern Germany at least, Telekom laid fibers after 1993.
Didn't check the page, but it's a $15/hr floor. Some make more.
I think "reintroduced" makes sense.

I thought there were factory problems, a page with information about product returns, and possibly a story around that.
that sounds good to me, thank you for the reply here
What a lot of comments here are missing is that complexifiers can be turned into simplifiers. The key realization is that they are bored by the assigned work and want to do something challenging, not that they want things to be complex per-se.

There is a hierarchy of code quality by difficulty, and it takes increasing smarts to ascend the ladder here:

1. Simple but bad code. - the developer doesn't understand the problem and just writes simple straightforward and wrong code

2. Complex bad code - the developer understands the problem and tries to solve it, but is just making everything worse.

3. Complex good code[0] - the developer solves the problem convincingly, but in a complicated way that perhaps only they understand.

4. Simple good code - the developer realizes a simpler way they could solve the same problem and writes it in a way that allows others on the team to understand and maintain it.

Your developers are currently at a 3, and you need to push them to ascend to 4. If you get your smart devs using their brains to remove complexity from your system with stunningly clever simplifications, everyone will be better off. And it can't be faked, it's truly difficult to solve hard problems with simple code.

[0] "I object! Complex good code is an oxymoron!" Listen, for the sake of this comment, "good code" means all other measures of quality other than complexity. Efficiency, solving all problem constraints, well commented, etc.
As an aside, there are some things that you can do with having the air vents in the rooms and a forced air system with some control so that instead of "control baffles in the basement that lead to ductwork for one zone" it is instead "control baffles in rooms".

One such example: https://flair.co/pages/central-systems-smart-vents
Largest-Known Flower Preserved in Amber Nearly 40M Years Old, Study Says
It's been sinking since 2000s and intuitively, Indian TFR is not high enough to explain such low female labour force participation, where world average is 50%. Also plenty of of countries with much better maternity benefits and significantly higher participation rates, but not fair to compare OECD. Culturally, I think it's driven by traditional social pressure for women to stay at home if husband can be bread winner, or jobs get deferred to men when times are tough.
I get that. It would be good if you could associate Medium articles to a federated post so that comments on Medium could come from federated servers.
Right, says "0.5 kg 'rare-earths'" per vehicle. A biggish camera drone uses more.
Tony, you should have a talk with the writefreely/write.as folks (Matt Baer; I think it might just be one guy but it might be a small team as well now) because they're in this space and may have experiences to share with you.
Interesting point you raised.
This is 100% correct.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2K_resolution

> Another resolution that is often referred to as 2K is 2560 × 1440 (1440p) however that is a common mistake in marketing[12] and is called QHD by the DCI.

It is a mistake to refer to 2560x1440 as 2K.

People calling 1080p "2K" is a pet peeve of mine. 2.5K is a more appropriate name for 2560x1440, if you want to use that naming convention, but I think just saying 1440p is simpler.
I tried to sign up to the newsletter. I was reading the site in English, but it offered me two(mandatory) choices of email language, Spanish or Espanol!
Well yes, if it described a format as pleasant for humans as YAML, while not being ambigious and error-prone.
Yeah, CORBA / RMI which microservices eschewed for HTTP.

I had a joke years ago that the reason HTTP services became so popular was simply because those ports were the only ones open in the firewall, so people used those rather than having to get new ports approved by some convoluted security review.
> High end filmmaking has gotten 'cheaper', in that you can use virtual production to simulate environments etc. And undoubtedly shooting 'digital' is cheaper than film development.

That proposition would mean that the reason why majority of the last decades' top budget movies were rehashed crap was because of the exorbitant profit margins and exorbitant money paid to stars rather than anything related to the movies' production. So it was just a case of capitalism hollowing out things for profit like in any other field.

> However - the cost of producing a decent film has not dropped to a few thousand.

I don't think anybody ever made that argument. What people say is that things became much cheaper and therefore democratized. Which is in line with what you said.
ChatGPT and Winograd's Dilemma
Individual self control vs corporate chemical addiction machines...

Regulation is a good thing - it helps citizens save their energy for their own lives, instead of having to reserve it for navigating an increasingly complex and profit-optimized society.
still only 1080p
> And honestly it shouldn't be legal to call it that

For general clarity: it's the Verge who is calling it "unlimited". Microsoft is specifically calling it "discresionary". It's not great reporting.
I know there's a "clique" criticizing this. That's not my point, but thanks for trying to balance the needle on its tip. Ask common people and the media about gold, silver and platinum mining, and you'll get a careless shrug on the shoulders in return.
Honestly, the NIH should give grants for software engineers to come in and clean things up.
It's the kind of metric I'd use if I wanted to convey how much time was wasted on something.
Those are fog lights. Yellow light can penetrate better in fog. I never had them so I can not say how good they work.
Isn't the gram a unit of mass, not weight?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram
I waited so long to get a new laptop, and System76 was my top choice, except for their awful screens.

Finally bit the bullet on got a Macbook Pro 14" instead...
I am at the gym at a major university that had a tough lockdown, sent many employees home, made us where masks on campus all the time, etc.

Out of 20 people I see zero masks.

Most people don’t see COVID as a crisis today, but people like the author might be saying 30 years from now that they have never been the same.
Don't assume stupidity ;)

A bunch of these employers are paying as much as they can. One I know can't legally offer more, and others are said to be offering enough that their projected profits will be zero in 2023.
Me too, and I'm a fan of Baumbach and mumblecore / highly verbal in general (although this film doesn't meet the definition). Netflix seem to have just launched it into cinemas without much of a campaign. Stumbled across it in an art house here in Germany. It was streaming two weeks later.
This is why configurations as code should be written in actual programming languages. Dhall, Nix, and Pulumi are all solutions geared towards configuration but written with fully capable, user-extensible, programming languages.
The line Peter Singer draws, which I found quite elegant, is "things that can suffer". You can have aesthetic opinions about what we do to plants, but a major difference with what we do to chickens is that the plants don't suffer.
Every single CEO seems to have made the same mistake. I can't believe that they didn't see this coming. My businesses also grew intensely during the pandemic, but if I thought that rate would last, I would have considered myself the stupidest leader on the ground.

This is just so short sighted from Jack and other such CEOs.
Despite the company having a lot of problems, this is another example where an app like this does not need a huge org behind it.
I read that they have an incredibly efficient setup, sometimes in the drive thru you get served 100 places before some competitors.

And they have the best revenue per site.
I believe you don't need that much money, actually. The SBA has small business loans that you can get at great leverage. If they wanted, they probably could pool together the money and pull it off for a smaller location. But the practice of the matter is that a non-Starbucks coffee shop is a different proposition entirely to a Starbucks.

Access to the installed app base, the brand, the commercial RE management changes the economics of things.
Reminiscent of the Boston Bomber "manhunt" on Reddit, where they named a suicide victim as the bomber. IRC, the family harassed while they were in mourning as a result.

Criminal investigations are not something you want to crowd-source.
Maybe it's the long rumored locally produced System76 laptop.
Any relation to Sam Altman?
Is it just me? I look at the screenshot below the sentence
"Then bring in the noise-shaper." that shows the difference between the 1st-order noise shaper and the Sequence LUT and… i'm seeing only a very small difference!
They do. They also understand that there collaborators were Ukrainian nationalists (who were extremely anti-semitic and enthusiastically participated in pogroms) who are increasingly venerated in Ukraine. As an American, I'm able to compartmentalize this, and rationalize that Ukrainians are venerating people like Bandera for their anti-Russian partisanship, not for their anti-Jewish politics. But this is less of an option for Germans, who for very understandable reasons have a greater sensitivity to anti-Semitism than most nations.
I only work a few hours a week at the moment (by choice)

The real challenge is staying off your phone. Be disciplined about addictive screen use. Then you'll get bored and think of good things to do. Allowing yourself to get bored is the important thing.
I am German. Indeed the German population is quite old, and employers prefer young workers. I think other factors (or overlooked groups) to be considered are:

Many family men and women in prime working age are not willing to move. The housing market is stressed (rents are exploding everywhere). Often Middle-Aged Germans must do caretaking work for old parents, and cannot move for this reason.

Many non-family-starting Germans (from all age groups) are living in single-person households. Although if they are unemployed and able to move where the work is, many don't. Because of these people are prosperous, or are prosperous enough for a while. And they often have skills from previous careers. They just not need to take any unrelated job. So they can afford to wait and choose.

These highly skilled people in demand have enough wealth (savings and inherited wealth) and even enough income to get along, even though they _could_ make more money elsewhere. So they are also not on the job market.

Even if they did a retraining and pivoting, then many employers do not want to hire them permanently or not at all. Temporary or precarious jobs are the increasingly common here, no end in sight.
There may be some inherent filtering of the audience intended there. I suspect there's a correlation between someone's inability to deal with the word "fuck" being used in branding with their unlikely acceptance and support of other people's mistakes.
> Why in the world is anyone still squeezing useless numpads onto laptops???

Excuse me?! I will never buy a laptop without a numpad! I use numpads every day!

The better question is why is anyone still squeezing a useless touchpad onto laptops???
it is important to check that the stuff is really there, what grade in which place, how to design the mine so that it hits all the high grade places but doesn't collapse and machinery can get in, if it can be extracted without risks to outsiders, how to process it, where to get power, water, how to transport stuff there and back, what will be waste products, what to do with those, how much can be recycled, etc. Preliminary feasibility study & definitive feasibility study.

All this "studying" costs real money (as it involves drilling, chemistry experiments and so on) that needs to be raised first, too
We must liberate Sweden with Democracy!
My custom blog software generates RSS but I only post every month or so. In my logs I see RSS clients hit my site hundreds of times a day - all wasted effort.

Mastodon (or rather ActivityPub) fixes this by pushing out updates.
"[M]uch of what we consider technological innovation is, in fact, business model innovation. I’d add that a lot of what is perceived as innovation is also some form of ZIRP-fueled arbitrage. Everything is ZIRP."

https://www.readmargins.com/p/zirp-explains-the-world
51 shootings a year in a country with 100,000 public schools, not even counting private and charter schools, is not "commonplace." Your child is statistically 19 times more likely to die in a car accident than from a school shooting based on last year's numbers of 608 versus 32:

https://www.toddwburrislaw.com/how-many-children-die-in-car-...

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year...

If you're not having kids because of school shootings then you might have a serious problem and should seek help. And I am not trying to be callous in saying that. I feel sadness for someone who is unnecessarily gripped in fear about the future in that way. You deserve better!
> bread and starch is at the bottom of the food pyramid

This hasn't been true for 18 years.
Meanwhile people like me think you're complaining about the tiny screen.
I don't think Vulkan needs to specify hardware level defaults, but for instance, something all of the tutorials does is irrelevant: no one cares what your game engine information is. There's going to be a handful of major studios whose Vulkan metrics are going to be collected and vendors can study that data.

99% of tutorial readers are going to grab the first device exposed to them. On a system with a discrete GPU, which is what most people will want to use, they'll pick that. When it's not available, an integrated device will be exposed.

You will almost never need to actually query for more device information.

If you're working through a tutorial, you will almost never need to actually write your own validation layers.

etc.

Edit: A lot of these tutorials do things that you don't need to do simply because they read it from another tutorial! I seriously doubt everyone is actually reading the reference specification.
Try Chinese in smaller font sizes...
> There is a far, far bigger problem than WhatsApp here, starting with the fact that the article reports a recent collision with fatailities.

Oooh Mexico Májico. The Mexico City Metro system is falling into pieces. There have been several terrible accidents in very recent times:

- Line 12 Overpass Collapse (3 May 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City_Metro_overpass_col... )

- Line 3 Collision (couple of days ago) https://www.npr.org/2023/01/07/1147728625/mexico-city-subway... )

- Line 5 Fire (couple of days ago https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2023/01/11/metro-cdmx...).

This is the result of years and years of corruption and lack of maintenance. Officers of EVERY level stealing money that is supposed to go for maintenance. Or "contracting" their cousins, friends and other co-conspirators to perform the maintenance, but in reality they keep the money and let the infrastructure to rot.
At least in California it was more like "We voted for this in overwhelming numbers because industrialized animal cruelty does not align with our society's values."[1]

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_12,_Farm_Anim...
>The USDA shows the current price of a dozen large eggs in California cost about $6.72, which is double what it cost in July.

https://abc7.com/egg-prices-in-california-avian-flu-bird-cag...