skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could have simply raised their minimum to a number that covered the overhead.
I mean, it seems pretty obvious that we are on the cusp of the AI revolution, that could fuel decades of growth.
Some of us would much rather take a tiny chance at being "scammed" than the certainty of being at the mercy of the government, the banks and the payment processors. In an ideal world, both of these choices would be available to adults to manage their risks and their own finances as they saw fit, rather than being forced into the latter system "for their own good".
Quick, someone call in a tactical neutron bomb on Boston Dynamics HQ.
They're working on supporting SQLite as a backend: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/12/20/help-us-test-the-...
>Or, a less cynical take is that they really can have more impact by focusing on fewer charities.

It's hard not to be cynical when you look at the charities they are focusing on. All of them are in-house, and seem positioned to strongly benefit Amazon. Like the one where they brag about building houses near the Amazon major headquarters.
> organizations supporting specific political narratives.

Yes, you're referring to the Tides Foundation, the shady outfit that launders the Wikimedia donations into causes that the Wikimedia donors aren't aware of.

That doesn't change the fact that the majority of content on Wikipedia was freely created by non-staff. So they're "giving away" something that was given to them for free, not something they created.
Not in C# for sure. Not a C++ expert, but I believe reinterpret_cast behavior is defined too.
Yes you can see all of these metrics and more on the Tesla mobile app. There's also a handful of 3rd party Tesla apps that do even more.
https://www.tessie.com/
https://tezlabapp.com
https://teslafi.com
Or host your own: https://github.com/adriankumpf/teslamate
Like Hitler.

(Sorry, I had to.)
> 1. Unify all of the various settings, addons, downloads, bookmark dialogs. They should all just be tabs, with consistent style. I should be able to "nav" to the others easily, and they should probably open as new tabs.

they do want to do this but they are hamstrung by money and tech debt. they are a seriously old browser with as much tech debt as you could imagine. google chrome came about only fairly recently with all the lessons learned from firefox/internet explorer/opera/et.al.. the fact that we have a multiprocess firefox was a monumental rewrite of scores of core code. I do wish firefox was better too but also it's not the largest ad revenue company in the world with a vested interest in getting ads to people as easily as possible and controlling the way that happens.

The downloads and bookmarks code is some of the oldest in the entire codebase too. that's not easy to refactor.
> During day-to-day development, the important bit isn't that there are no failures. The important bit is that there are no regressions.

And that's why we test and why tests shouldn't be allowed to fail.

Just because the scenarios described make testing hard does not change reality of what makes tests valuable.

If pre-existing failures are halting the production pipeline and you don't like it, switch off trunk based development and see if you like the waits and constant rebasing in large projects/teams. But don't eff with the bloody tests!
If you hate it, it's probably because it's different. You'll get used to it. It's similar to how every time a company re-designs their logo, there's always a huge backlash solely because it's change, and people do not like change.

It's a really nice improvement from the previous design.
Consider protobufs, you have to do a bit more work but if you're going to schematize an API (which a CLI is when you get down to it) it's a good universal option.
It's a shame this is closing. I love this program and more importantly, our local school PTO is a beneficiary and will feel the loss of this program.

Having said that, I am sure there are people misusing this and its a burden on Amazon to make sure they are not funding / supporting malicious users. I get it but closing it is not a solution.
I’m more trying to push things past an ending these days.
Conveniently placed supply bases sure help
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797485
Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says (2021)
Are you actually farming corn though? Over the whole thing? And at the density of commercial operations?

Sure, industrial corn operations use a lot of nitrogen (though they have indeed been shown to be over fertilizing, and a lot of the N from my state ends up in the Gulf), but gardens worked by human hands can be much, much, much more resource efficient at the cost of time and difficulty of automation.

With integrated nitrogen fixing plants, better use of mulch (which yes, ties up N at the surface temporarily, but can pay dividends overall), management of water flow etc, I cannot imagine needing that much fertilizer. I garden intensively in Iowa, and I do add a lot of compost when starting new beds (soil is clay) and I top up in the spring, but the older my beds get the fewer inputs they need.
You can probably jump on to boxes of several different heights placed in different places around a room. I don't think this robot can do that without a lot of trial and error by the programmers.
This works perfectly for my wife.

I once believed in real relationships.

They’re just ideas running through meat.
Bidirectional channel.

TCP.

But with respect to the shared net. The experience that makes a dent in the fabric of reality as shared or known by all, personalizes the universe to a subdomain.

Once I had the words. Now that’s gone too.
How much was the makerspace getting from Smile, if you can answer that?

I'm involved with some small makerspaces. The largest has a few hundred members.

If a quarter of them both used Smile and pledged their donations to us (a quarter is almost certainly way too high), let's say that's 100 people.

If the average person spends about $1000 on Amazon (almost certainly too high [1]), then that's $5 per person, or $500 per year total.

I guess it's something, but all those estimates are on the high end for the spaces I know, and still wouldn't cover a couple weeks' rent.

1. Prime members spend an average of $1400/yr, non-prime members spend $600, and roughly one out of the adults are prime members. https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/personal-finance/articles/th...
Would be interesting to combine a Boston Dynamics-type robot with (1) a GPT-like language model, (2) deep learning algorithms that analyze human movement (a la Dall-E but for human motion rather than images), and (3) text-to-speech, so that you can say "dance like a child" and it can generate a child-like dance.
Litestream isn't a Fly.io feature.
The Secret $40B Food Fraud Economy (CNBC)
I think part of the problem might be that the biggest numbers get the most publicity. So if one person says it's +1 degree and one person says it's +2 degrees over the same time period, the more dire prediction will win. So it's hard to get a realistic estimate because you mostly just hear "it could be as bad as ###" and "it could only be ###, that's not too bad".
You need to build basic skill primitives for the robot until it's no longer a mechanical problem, and just a software problem, which can be iterated on much more quickly and take advantage of mounds of ML/AI advances. Seems like they are getting close.
All that Apple needs to do is drop the “Pro” moniker from the 13-inch model. It is just a fatter MacBook Air with a touchbar!
US Government Letter Paper is 8x10.5 inches, though I think it's used only for internal documents. Probably too much inertia to try to change it to 8.5x11.
> If you hate it, it's probably because it's different.

No, the only thing I actually hate is that the main page has plenty of space on the side to show the sidebar, yet I still have to click it in order to get it to open up and see "Current Events".

I don't dislike it because it's different, I dislike it because it is measurably slower to do something I used to do in one click. THERE IS NOTHING THERE WHEN THE SIDEBAR IS COLLAPSED.
For any type of software, the team can't get all the features done first, then slap a login screen on at the end and expect the result to be secure. But it happens all the time - features, usability, and interface are first, security is an afterthought. Trying to explain that to project and product managers or management in general and get them to think about the security model as part of the requirements and incorporate it into ongoing development could take all my attention.
As two examples: it could easily be collectively more convenient if individuals had fewer rights and less privacy.

The US right to free speech is inconvenient at times for the collective. (I have no interest in hearing pro-Nazi speech. I have even less interest in living under a government with the power to ban that speech or other unpopular speech.)

When I lived in Germany, I had to register my address with the local government and update it quickly if I moved. In the US, I can move without reporting it to the local government. I’m sure there’s some collective benefit to the local police having a fairly accurate record of where everyone is regularly sleeping. Individually, I’m not interested in being obligated to share that information.

I believe the US approach is better, but I acknowledge that’s in large part because I was raised/indoctrinated to believe that.
But you could upload a new program of movements on the same hardware.

Requiring bespoke hardware for every possible task is like saying we shouldn't have CPUs - if you're gunna write a program, might as well put it on an FPGA.
Apologies for the armchair commentary. "Consolidation" meaning commerce regulation and oversight more tightly consolidated than possible with technology (including paper notes) currently used.

> ...standards-based collaborative approach...

You have not said this explicitly, but for myself it is notable that this is not peer-to-peer, with both parties collaborating based on a standard. Instead it is clearinghouse. Unlike peer-to-peer standards, this would give the Fed Reserve at least a large dataset or at most a large control lever. From the linked article:

> Through financial institutions participating in the FedNow Service...
> Consistent with the Federal Reserve’s historical role of providing payment services...
> The cost of changing over is astronomical

as opposed to the cost of not changing over, which is much larger but paid in small increments over time so nobody is bothered enough to do anything about it
CNET's ChatGPT Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Dumb Errors
Sounds like you thought this through, Firefox welcomed contributors
This is good fo Kenya, Thank you guys.
Never occurred to me how better it feels with the table of content on the side, even though that's a common thing in document processors. UX is the ultimate one-way function. Hard to make right, easy to judge.
It's a shitty situation, and it seems all too common for men.

The usual knee jerk response is to blame the men for being unable to communicate effectively.

I think the sad truth is that not everyone is cared about equally, and sometimes it is everyone else's fault.

But it isn't like you can get mad about it. That is just going to push people away and make them bitter toward you.
I'm late to this, obviously, but we've banned this account for repeatedly breaking HN's site guidelines. Please don't create accounts to do that with.

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I see a Previewer utility of some sort: https://www.questpdf.com/document-previewer

I've used PdfSharp in the past to generate product spec sheets in bulk. It worked fine. This one seems more focused on .NET 6 and modernity.
The comment I replied to upthread was also talking about n-tier replication features that weren't built in.

LiteFS isn't the only way to replicate a SQLite database.

Do you want Oracle servers? Because "Nobody got fired for choosing IBM" is how you get Oracle servers.

If you read just one additional sentence in to the Litestream "Data Loss Window" section, you'll find: "This is how many replication tools work including PostgreSQL’s log-shipping replication".

I don't know what you mean by "relying on just the WAL". The WAL is the database. What else would you replicate? How are you contrasting this against Postgres replication?
I agree with this. When you're writing a program, start with your data structures. Your actual code will follow.
I live on the opposite planet. basically every bug that I have ever had in python over my 15 years of using it has had to do with a type issue. So the increased use of types and python and ability to express type concepts in python is the thing that I'm most excited about.

it is not necessarily about type mismatch bugs per se, but more like without type information in the code I will misunderstand what kind of structure is passed in to a function, how to decompose it, what members the data has, what functions does it have, how do you spell them correctly, what elements to expect in dictionaries and what kinds of values do they have, and how can I make massive changes to code without knowing all those answers and expect it all to still work.

type annotations are solving a lot of those issues for me nicely, and the number of things that it doesn't solve well is decreasing with each version and the new features they are adding
Power users are fickle and they too are, I suspect, power users of Firefox too.
I'm lazy, so I keep linking this screenshot. This is why I don't / can't leave Firefox: https://i.imgur.com/81OpEOy.png

I have so, so many tabs open. And when I need, I can reorganize in a tree structure and just collapse [other projects] tabs and leave them. Combined with "Auto Discard Tabs", I have hundreds+ of tabs open, with only a half-dozen using RAM. Works freakin' great for me, even on a laptop.

(note, this is Tree Style Tabs along with a userChrome.css hack to remove the tab bar; I'm okay with this tradeoff, normal extensions being able to hide the tab bar sounds like it would lead to issues.)
I thought I read that v0.6 will include Vite support, so you'll be able to do a SPA front-end with Vite + Bun.
Ha! PostgreSQL still needs some kind of replication story! ;)

(PS. Mostly just pointing out that replication is still a bit awkward.)
Might be conflating groups with individuals. The teams/orgs that tend to be hit the hardest tend to be not the most productive/cutting edge except when they're research teams way out on the horizon.
A broken clock is right twice a day. An unsupervised FSD enabled car crashes once per month? Probably more.
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That’s definitely abnormal behavior. And your local watchmaker just tells you this is how it is?
The bulk of the browser's memory usage is the rendering engine and surrounding stuff rather than the JS on the page.

v8 has a compacting GC[0] while JSC does not[1]. This was the result of the v8 team taking out a bunch of time to write a new GC that was released in 2018 (Orinoco).

Here's a comparison of a simple job. With lots of concurrency, Bun is 20-30% faster, but uses 60% more memory.

https://medium.com/deno-the-complete-reference/hello-world-p...

Here's a little about JSC, Hermes, and v8 memory in React Native.

https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/react-native-memory-pro...

[0] https://v8.dev/blog/trash-talk

[1] https://webkit.org/blog/12967/understanding-gc-in-jsc-from-s...
It is on point: if you stopped a second to think and consider the context you might have gotten it.
Money would have perhaps been spent better if Elon bought BD instead. These robots would make excellent workers to prep Mars for colonization and beyond.
The whole point of affiliate links is that they're generating sales that wouldn't have existed without- it is essentially an incentive for people to advertise for Amazon in organic ways. Whether the money goes to the affiliate or the smile program at that point wouldn't really make much difference, and actively undermining the people who post affiliate links seems like it would be a stereotypically idiotic corporate split brain thing to do.

I don't often click on affiliate links, but I also don't recall seeing the smile reminder when I have used them. YMMV I guess.
It's crazy that this is only happening as of 2022, right? They could have kept a whole generation of web sites on WordPress by eliminating the MySQL dependency, and gained a performance and deployability advantage in the process. Even multitenant WordPress would have come out great with SQLite. I'm waiting for someone closer to WordPress to tell me how wrong I am about this, because I have to be missing something.
Tests in seperate repo is the worst anti pattern I have seen. It’s extremely common that a change requires a change in tests but it’s impossible to correctly manage this situation if the tests can’t be updated in the same commit/pr.
I went ahead and bought the 27-inch iMac while it was still around. You can still find some new ones. After Apple introduced the 27-inch Studio Display, which was basically the same price as an iMac but without the iMac- while retaining essentially the same panel, it seemed that Apple was suggesting that they won’t be replacing the 27-inch iMac with an M-model.

Interesting tidbit: compiling an Unity engine game on my iMac 27 Intel with 8GB RAM is quicker than compiling the same game on my M1 Max with 16GB RAM. By compiling, I mean once in Unity and then again in Xcode to run the project on my iOS device.
These are straw-man arguments [1]. Nice try. The original argument is equal-pay-for-equal-work and these are all arguments for why unequal-pay-for-equal-work is justified, or why much lower lifespans in Africa justify reducing the lifespans of Women in High COL locations, or that Nigerians being offered higher pay doesn't mean that they are being exploited, completely ignoring the fact of collective historical exploitation leading to the current impoverished Low COL conditions, making their current life "cheaper".

Is it really that hard to wrap one's head around the equal-pay-for-equal-work argument? Around basic fairness? Offer the same pay across the board for the same work - whether that worker is a Woman or a Nigerian. That's the basic exploitation at play here: the value of the work is $1 (for argument's sake), the US man gets $1, but the US Woman gets $0.82 and the Nigerian gets $0.03. On what basis? Being born a Woman. Or being born in Nigeria. It's not even based on skills, which is this whole different ball of wax. No, it's based on what 'your kind' make. Not what the work is worth, not on any kind of rational basis, simply based on what your kind make or what those around you make. That's deeply unfair. Offer them all $1.

Sure, now the counter argument can be, life is unfair, it is what it is. If the follow on to that is that the status quo is acceptable and that no change needs to be made, then that indicates a lack of empathy, or in the extreme, capitalistic psychopathy (which needs to be regulated, within reason, for an actual greater good). If there is empathy, which there presumably is - because I see an argument above to export jobs to reduce poverty, or to improve African lifespans - let's start by changing structural injustices. And using impoverished Nigerians to exploit US Women is not it. Pay them that da** $1 for $1 of work! Not try to get away with $1.85 for $3 of work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
Amazon to close charitable program AmazonSmile
I have a different experience. Perhaps that's a cultural thing, but admitting to a manager that I was having mental health issues only made things worse and was certainly the biggest mistake I ever made in my career.

I didn't get fired, but it became impossible to solve issues, as every single (legitimate, I swear) complaint or request from me was chalked up to "you're depressed".

But your point still stands 100%: it's not on the employee to solve all work-related burnout-inducing issues.
As per this link, there are 1.8 billion children globally (i.e. below 14). India has roughly 250 Million children so around 14% of the world population of children.

There are roughly 250 million child laborers globally of which 11 million are Indian children so around 4.4% of the global child labor population is Indian.

I.e., despite having 14% of the world's kids, only 4.4% are child laborers. I'd say India is moving in the right direction when it comes to child welfare.

https://www.culturalworld.org/what-percentage-of-the-worlds-...
Doesn't look like it's maintained anymore, sadly. All of the major language repos have long threads trying to figure out who can pick up maintenance of the project.
Flent: The FLExible Network Tester
feels modern, but modern in a very web center way that i feel like very 2020s. it feels overly minimalist in a way that looks good in design sheets. love the table of contents on the side dont care for the modern trend of removing any and all color separation between distinct portions of the page.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

Makes a vertical list of your tabs in the side panel, and opening links from a page makes a node visually indented directly under that tab. Very nice for grouping tabs in a hierarchy as you descend through links on a topic.

Useful for general browsing and for sites like Hacker News: you can middle click links to interesting comments on the home page, then you can go through them one by one, opening the article (which is another tab one layer deeper), and any other links from there, all "contained" in that tree. You can collapse the tree to save space and resume at a later time. After you're done you pop the stack back to the comments and read, right click and close the whole tree when done and move on to the next article you "bookmarked".

For some workflows it's very nice.
It isn't a choice for most men to just surround themselves with compassionate people.

It's hard to find them for one, and often you won't really know until you have gotten to know them a bit. And this assumes they are even interested in exploring a friendship with you.
Crypto Is Just a ‘Hot Ball’ of Momentum-Chasing Money
I keep trying to give a discount for this, in some sense, but it's hard as time marches on and I've seen some of those deep improvements, while also seeing UX left on the table.

Don't get me wrong, afaict, Firefox will get decent wayland support, new fractional support, vaapi, etc, etc on Linux desktop before Chrome, and for that I can't say Thank You enough. All to say, thank you for this perspective. I wish I knew what to really do about it (I'm not qualified or blessed with the time for C++ contributions).
One way we can help people help us is to give them an ask - "I feel like garbage. Can you deal with dinner?" or "I feel like garbage. Do you have time to chat with me?"

People need scripts and many people struggle to provide active support to someone they view as supportive. Giving them a script can help.
I use a greasemonkey script that removes all affiliate links and specifically goes to smile.amazon.com so I don't have to think about it.
Ha! The rest of the world uses WhatsApp.
You just gave me a tiny database education in about 8 sentences.
Hah, so I suppose the next step would be a browser extension that performs this auditing on every visit
The big advantage to human shaped robots is by default people make environments for other humans to walk around in. Atlas the ability to use a key and open doors can do a huge number of things a quadcopter etc just can’t.

I don’t expect them to replace night watchmen anytime soon, but a more flexible robot could be more efficient than a cheaper and simpler device that requires extensive modifications to the environment so it can operate.