skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very funny that you seem to think reading code and reading a website are the exact same type of activities, and the same type of reading. They are not.

And I don't know where you've been for the last 30 some years, but the web is not a text only format, and the reason HTML was invented was specifically to be able to create a designed space where text can actually make sense and is not a gigantic wall of impossibly small black on white text.
No blackouts here. Rural blackouts are more common in high wind situations to mitigate wildfire risk. It's just the reality of living in the WUF.

75% of electricity costs in California come from the grid, not generation. Grid costs recently are up due to wildfire mitigation for power to rural communities.
https://pe.usps.com/text/pub28/welcome.htm

And this is just the US postal system.

The address system in my area is covered in Appendix D
I don't use Twitter, but I will re-open my old Twitter and contact you.
Even the most expensive enterprise plan with Github is only $231 per user per year (since we're talking about yearly upfront).

https://github.com/pricing
Hope you're also telling that to all of the folks who are demanding jobs be set aside for them under the ever-increasing number of DEI initiatives that are being rolled out.
Almost all paper mail received by politicians in Canada is read by their staffers. You'll get a form reply, at a minimum. Some actually do read a lot of it. Whether curated by staffers, or a random selection, or both. I imagine it depends on the individual politician. Some do reply.

R B Bennett, Canadian PM from 1930 - 1935, was an eager correspondent with random people across the country. He read and wrote tens of thousands of letters throughout his career. During the Depression he would include cash from his personal wealth in the envelopes if people described hardships. I wonder if that would be seen as vote-buying today but it was probably genuine charity.

I don't believe that basic tendency has really changed. Some politicians do genuinely want to be close to the people and random conversations and letters with ordinary people are one way to do that. And seeming approachable is useful politically, if nothing else. Some want nothing to do with the filthy masses, of course.
1. no, you should never ever "mix down to mp3 and export to the DAW, where the real work happens". If you're going to work in a DAW, please, please start with losslessly compressed or uncompressed PCM data.

2.

> The same could be accomplished also in software, and it would have a huge success

Odd how none of the proprietary DAW manufacturers believe this, isn't it?

I've already described the basic problem with this idea: it starts out as being precisely what someone wants, but every few months, their desires/expectations expand. What "productive without distractions" means looks very different after you've done a bit of computer audio production for a year than when you're just starting out.
This distinction is weird to me. Bitcoin is also created by fiat. If trust in government is lost, there is no governance nor money. If trust in bitcoin is lost, there are no running nodes nor tokens.
Which platform is your app on? iOS or Android?
My guess is that the older folks who have the experience to speak deeply about these topics aren't interested in maintaining a blog. One of my most interesting college professors worked on chess engines professionally. He has a small online presence, but his commentary is usually in response to pointed questions or wild claims about chess engines.

The guy has stories upon stories about both hardware and software design and their impact on performance at both high and low level. All of his tangents in class were downright fascinating.
I would agree, with the exception of the text lines being too long.

I flipped over into reader mode and it's much improved, solely because of line length and dark mode.
I don't know how we can be confident a Union will just solve the problems you point out.

I'm also not sure we can be confident that most agree these are problems at all - if you are low-skilled or no-skilled, then it does not matter how much value you bring to a company, you are too easily replaced. The solution isn't to fleece the company, but improve the average person's ability to obtain valuable skills, no?

Additionally, Union shops are notoriously poorly run, poorly organized and inefficient. The Union does things to benefit the Union, not the workers, business or public. How do we keep that in check?
Um, shouldn't all people be WAY more concerned with the content than the presentation? I don't want to read stream of consciousness with occasional lack of spaces and random case, but I'd really prefer to only read websites by people who give zero effs to presentation, and I had prior to this moment assumed everyone agreed, but that it was fun to do presentation, so people did. There are people who care about the presentation of what they are reading on even close to the same level of the content itself?!
There are, and both Visa [0] and MasterCard [1] have both recently been in trouble for it. Instead of it being a specific maximum, however, it must be "reasonable" and allow for competition. The network also chooses the cheapest routing, by default.

[0] https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/visa-undertakes-to-add...

[1] https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/mastercard-in-court-fo...
Only two hard things in computer science, blah blah.
BetterHelp is a platform, not a provider. The actual therapists you talk to can't talk about you, but BetterHelp sure can.
A Royal Mail letter posted without a stamp would likely lead to an insufficient postage card being delivered which would require the postage + £1 attaching to it for the letter to be released.
I think political statements like yours should be banned from HN. This is not what this site is about.
The MFi chip is "needed" for profit.
What if it went the other way? The strategy you described is a silly gamble that could have resulted in bankruptcy. Read the book Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb for a treatise on why your thinking is wrong.
So because he tricked people into paying fees while performing more or less what the market does, he's an "expert"?
Kind of wonder if there’s going to be a counterculture movement that looks a bit like old school PGP webs of trust. Humans inviting humans and trying to keep out the synths.
That's just a really really bad write-up on the real problem on running a database on k8s.

You need ha because k8s should run already with automatic node upgrades.

You need a pod disruption budget to make sure it is running and switching over when a node fails or gets upgraded.

You want to either totally Oberprovision on memory or look into keep 2400 to make sure to fine-tune memory before k8s starts to throw your database out constantly.

K8s is not a VM.

If you use k8s and still don't take care of application migration strategies you still don't understand what cloud native means.

There are still other things missing here but still...

Of course excluding hobby people playing with k8s.

Memory and upgrading nodes are the two single most issues will see which disrupts service.

Otherwise k8s is a dream come true.

I still would try to use a db managed if it's critical.

Additional points:
Zalando postgres operator is great and shows the real magic of k8s and operator.

Use a helm chart and just bring your own little database for dev test and e2e tests.

You can easily use Auto scaling for node profiles. No noisy neighbors. If your db is too small for normal nodes you don't have a problem anyway.
Encrypted at rest does not actually do anything against interoperability of protocols (as I put in my comment), a secure element/coprocessor is nice but still does nothing against compatibility. Even if the entire protocol is somehow in the coprocessor (ala BPF/SGX) there is nothing preventing the counterparty from running it on a regular CPU.
There was an Inverse Galloway Index (although not an actual fund I think) that saw some fat returns when there was a seemingly unlimited money supply, but if you had invested in it a year and a half ago you would be deep in red.

Over a period of a year or two nobody knows anything, possibly even in general. So can't blame Cramer too much. On the other hand there's no reason to listen to him either.
> Browsers stop bitching about loading unencrypted static resources on an encrypted page.

I tend to agree with you on other points but that one is a weird take. If I deliberately visit an https page I want to be reasonably confident that it wasn't tampered with and that I'm not leaking information.

Allowing loading http resources in an https context breaks that trust. Scripts may be tampered with. The website URL is leaked via the referer. Cookies might be leaked.

Note: Mitigations for all those worries do exist. Cookies can be flagged secure-only. Referer can be stopped using CORS, etc. But they all need the developer to be proactive about it and, for the most part, they aren't.
Interesting. I guess it just goes to show that not all social groups are the same.
> The company will also pay $7.8 million to resolve allegations that it revealed sensitive data

> Teladoc had revenue of $2.4 billion last year, with about $1 billion coming from the BetterHelp.

The fine does not seem like a large enough fraction of their revenue to deter future abuse.
Alamo Drafthouse prides themselves on kicking people out if they do any of these things...yet they were going bankrupt and had to be sold. There has got to be more to it than just these (legit) issues.

Personally I feel it is an indication of societal decline that is contributing. This whole era of people really being isolated thanks to tech and modern society is revealing a lack of empathy for the fellow man.
They weren't White to my grandparents.
Depends on what task you have, but look at sbert.net for the student model. Generating data with GPT3 means solving the prompt, also task specific.
Idk, its another way of doing something that for some people could be very important. I've had Next apps take 5 minutes to start, with 1 minute single-page build times in local dev. So yeah, pretty easy to calc the payoff of speeding that up.
Yes ARKK has crashed spectacularly but that wasn't the point of the original comment. You would be down now betting against it earlier, it's not like it never gained anything prior.
Better yet, get yourself what David Graeber calls a "bullshit job" instead.
I haven't used it but always figured it might be a good way to dip your toes in the water.

One of the hardest parts of starting therapy is finding a therapist who's a good match for you. And it's a lot of work to find therapists, schedule, have an awkward conversation after a first session about whether you'll have a second...

So even if it winds up being the same price or even more, it could still be a net benefit in terms of being an efficient and anxiety-free way of finding a therapist who's a good match. Or even just the right therapy modality.

I've often wondered, though, once you find a therapist you like, what prevents you from just seeing them directly, without BetterHelp taking their cut?
> People have an infinite amount of electronic communication tools and services from which to choose.

Due to network effects of communication tools, this is not really true.
Ban the domains too.
I've never seen non-americans take ton for anything other than 1000 kg. The real funny thing in that other thread is the guy specifically claimed "metric tons" while doing math with some other type of tons.

Who cares, though, right? What's important is sounding right
All lighting adjusts the 'wall color'. It's impossible for it not to.

There's no man made source that exactly replicates the sun.
I keep getting Uber Eats emails with offers for $20 food free. So I go to the website, order about $15 of food, Uber still wants to collect $25 from me for all the various fees and charges, but oh, they don't deliver to my area and the offer is only for delivery. Oh well, I guess I won't be spending an additional $10 more than normal to get my food "free" today.
No, they don't have those EBITDA margins.

They report an "adjusted" (ie, fake) EBITDA number in the 20's. It's bs and investors know it's bs. It doesn't include stock based comp.
Do you think pricing based on features would be more reasonable for people that don’t currently have the need for the other 3rd party systems? I’ve heard that they don’t want to make pricing more complex but it does seem like a steep pricing if you only need say what GitHub offers for $4/user.
I wonder how much has changed - I visited back in '07 and felt like Costa Rica was incredibly affordable, although I've heard it's gotten more expensive as it's gotten more popular. I ate plenty of casado plates for about $3, stayed in some (quite rustic) places I think as low as $15/night, traveled between towns via public bus for a couple bucks per trip, etc.

Although, after suffering through a few long, hot, cramped bus journeys, on my last day I booked the Grey Line tourist van for the first time on the trip - I got a ride directly from Tamarindo to the San Jose airport, in air-conditioned comfort, for like $15. It took like half as long as the public buses would have, and it was comfortable, and I didn't regret making my travel "less authentic" at all.

Oh, it looks like the place I remember being $15/night is now up to $26/night, although I think they've spruced it up a bit too: https://www.losminerosguesthouse.com/losminerosguesthouse-1
+1 Surfingkeys
I'm sure they have spreadsheets and math to back this up, and I'm going to wager that they decided that less customers in a higher tier is beneficial. The smaller customer base is not only made up for by the higher prices, but also the lesser overall customer acquisition costs and the typical lower cost to support this smaller group of customers, lots of whom may have staff of their own to field some of the basic support questions, before hitting up GitLab's support team.

But it _does_ make me sad that there's just no step in-between. I don't need to be a complete free-loader, but you quickly exceed the 5-user limit of the Free plan, after which $12x12=$348 per user/year is a steep jump up, for which I wish (and have pleaded with them) there to be an intermediate option.
It was needed for running railroads but the issue was a bit more important than being late for your train and missing it. When you are running trains in opposite directions on the same track it is pretty important to have your clocks well synced so you don't have head-on collisions.
Butterfish – Let's do useful things with LLMs from the command line
Scaling to millions of users with Google Sheets as a back end
GPS satellites comes to mind.
i agree that tecs are a plausible solution for some applications, and i have in fact lived in a house with a small tec-driven refrigerator, but phase-change energy storage or tces are more viable solutions to the daily energy storage problem than the sensible-heat energy storage approach you suggest, among other things because the large ΔT you suggest would entail an absurdly large stack of tecs

you can solve the waste heat problem by putting the tecs outside and running a coolant loop through the wall, filled with brine or propylene glycol; in the case of pces, the chilled coolant from the tecs freezes the ice inside your kitchen, in the ice reservoir which is used to cool the icebox

tces systems (not to be confused with tecs) can be driven directly by solar heat rather than through pv

however, i am not convinced that tecs are a viable alternative to vapor-compression refrigeration in general
Who Destroyed Live? Alt-Rock Band Torn Apart by Drama, Crime, Lawsuits
The core of unionizing is getting the word out that unionizing is possible, beneficial and worth the risk. There are some places that tech can help, but largely it's a human-interaction problem.

As an example, consider how to let someone know you're even considering unionizing. An app isn't able to find out who the people you need to reach out to are - that's work you'd have to do either way. It could automatically send a text or email when you've done that, but both of those are far inferior to just talking to the person. First of all nobody likes automatic messages and they're easy to ignore. Secondly it loses the ability to sound someone out slowly, which allows you to avoid dropping the U word and potentially tipping off management until you know the person. If its anonymous, the person is likely to ignore a message. Finally and most importantly, just info dumping union benefits comes across as a sales pitch and is very ineffective; it's better to have a conversation that gets to your co-workers needs at work and from there games out whether a union would help them.
This is three gross mischaracterizations in one!
It also has a whole chapter about anxiety-inducing video chat calls that predicts the Snapchat and TikTok filter generation of video call technology.
Conceptually, I don't see how this is much different from JIT compilers in the JVM, CLR, and similar runtimes. You don't hear so much from Java devs about how they can't* see the machine code their customers are running. They talk about cold-start performance, but accept that the first few requests will be slower in exchange for the productivity and eventually-high-performance.

Now that I think about it, this is how V8 works too, for JS code itself!

Why wouldn't this principle apply to bundling?
I think you have finally hit upon the solution to the pronoun problem.

In almost no case till I care about the express sexuality of the person for whom I am using a pronoun and I resent having to be forced to care about their self-centered nature, being self-centered myself.

However, instead of saying "he is wearing a weird hat", I can say "that cat is wearing a weird hat"

And I don't have to worry about it.

Gracias.
I think the post invites a question to all the HN responders:
What would it take for the computer [software] you are using to run at its full blazing potential?

The answer is - if every single piece of software was written while already knowing the true requirements, the scope of its use and re-use, and knowing the future bugs and security flaws that would appear, then it could be written one time and be BLAZING FAST.

Many parts would still be written in a 'Clean code' style for the necessary extensibility and testability, etc. But many others would be small and near optimal.

THEN on top of that, if the author or an equivalent talent came along and rewrote or supervised the optimization of the regular software, similar to how the article does, your system would be HYPER INSANE BLAZING FAST.

If we are proponents of OOP or Clean code, we need to acknowledge that fact. (i.e. My code may not be important but it all contributes to slowing down the computing world).
And if we think the Author is preaching gospel here, you should also acknowledge that because the future is so often unknown when we write code we often have no choice but to fill it with Clean code that can be easily changed later, and sometimes even 'Shit code' that we thought would never be used by anyone.
This is great advice for one-on-one groups and small discussions, but provides little help if you're writing for a broad audience and want to minimize blowback. Which is where I think that Stanford guide, and other such guides, come into play, whether I agree with them or not.
That's because they chose to live in the wildlife-urban interface, where wildfire risks are elevated. Note the article talks about damage to power lines. The shutoffs were not related to a lack of capacity.

Rural grid connection and maintenance costs are heavily subsidized by urban electricity users already. These subsidies should be applied for rather than being hidden so it's clear to everyone they exist.
I'd rather have roads fixed than labeled. CR has the worst roads in the OECD but the roads in the GAM are much much better than where I live. Last time I was in Atenas, I noticed they have street signs. Gee, I wonder why.

For the Americans out there, I have to look at a Facebook page to see if a road near me is open or flooded too much to pass. Otherwise, I have to go an hour around.

People use Waze and other stuff to find places and there isn't a lot of letter sending these days, so while I agree with you that brushing this off as culture is an excuse for the corruption, I don't really see this as one of our top challenges either.

not much point in knowing where you're going if you can't get there
"Protection" does not mean absolutely proof against. But even more, "calling BS" implies that the statement is not just wrong, but deceptive, and I completely disagree with that premise. (Which is additionally a claim it would be idiotic for them to make for an occupant likely wearing a rain coat.)
I'm not sure what you mean by "harming companies and the public"; however we can come up with concrete examples of companies harming working people in the US.

Wage theft in the US alone costs working people billions of dollars annually; by some estimates employers stealing from employees results in "three times as much economic loss as all other types of theft combined". (https://www.edelson-law.com/blog/2022/10/wage-theft-outpaces...)

EPI has done work around this:

> in the 10 most populous U.S. states. We find that, in these states, 2.4 million workers lose $8 billion annually (an average of $3,300 per year for year-round workers) to minimum wage violations—nearly a quarter of their earned wages

https://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-fro...
> I don't have any idea how a city or country can do any kind of property taxation without formal addresses

In most of the US, property identification is entirely independent from a mailing address: your property identification is a completely unique description deriving from a series of land subdivision based on the Land Ordinance of 1785

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System
> Psychological research on the need for cognition has been conducted using self-report tests, where research participants answered a series of statements such as "I prefer my life to be filled with puzzles that I must solve" and were scored on how much they felt the statements represented them.

This seems counter intuitive to me; I would consider myself someone that has a "need for cognition", but I am good at puzzles precisely because _I do not like being puzzled_. When I encounter something that doesn't make sense to me (a puzzle), it disturbs me so that I need to solve the puzzle and figure out why my assumptions were incorrect. I therefore dislike puzzles and I do not want them in my life. Puzzles are a contradiction of my assumptions. Maybe this is all "intolerance of ambiguity"
I live in CR, well outside of the GAM. There's simply no mail service out here, so there's no need for mailing addresses. Amazon will ship to the tourist info center in town, and you can pick up packages there. Otherwise...I really don't miss mail.
If you need to reduce average latency and the cache would actually do that, sure. Cache doesn't magically make all your network latencies drop, though.
Yes, you are right, I've noticed as well. But I can see how an indie-dev, who's usually working on with small budget, thinks accessibility is too expensive and a "luxury" thing. As someone who writes apps both in Swift & Java, but never published an app, I understand the other things that are important to do first.
I wonder the implications of asking ChatGPT to come up with an alternate version of each page and saying that I wrote it instead.
The era of AI-led customer meetings
> what is a "fact" (e.g. Covid came from bat soup in a wet market, Russia's invasion of Ukraine was "totally unprovoked" etc.)

Neither of those are statements of fact, though. The first is speculation, the second is opinion.

But it does appear to be true that many people don't understand what a "fact" actually is. I don't think "censorship" really plays into this much.