skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though note it was primarily the invention of artificial vanilla substitutes that made vanilla seem cheap/attainable. (Real Bourbon vanilla from Madagascar, for instance, is still far more expensive than most people realize.) There may even be a larger useful metaphor there, too, that "plain" vanilla is most often "fake vanilla".
You can use gh-ost (or most other online schema change tools) to get around that. You'll still have some necessary increase in write load since you are double-writing that table but you can control the pacing of the data backfill (gh-ost gives even more control as it doesn't use triggers to duplicate writes). It's not quite as simple as just running ALTER TABLE on the master though.
I don’t know about Uber but Lyft has a car rental service. Drivers can rent cars from Lyft to drive with Lyft. If the infrastructure is already there, going from “driver turns on an app to accept/reject a ride” to “we accept that automatically” is quite simple.
To be frank, I’ve only seen new grads wear suits. The more experienced the dev the worse they dress (generally). One candidate showed up to an interview in flip flops and nailed it.
That's exactly the problem. Suburban sprawl is entirely car-focused because you can't get out to the boonies without one.
This is exactly why I’ve never wanted to get too involved with Python. The few times I’ve tried to play with it, it always becomes a nightmare of error messages to do with stuff exactly like this and I spent more time farting around trying to figure out what went wrong with it then I do actually doing any development.
Predating that is Ludwell Denny's "We Fight For Oil" from 1928. I have a physical copy of this book. Its mere existence says a lot, and still does ...

https://www.yamaguchy.com/library/denny/denny_index.html
The OP talked about "defensive wars". If X tries to steal Y's pocket, and Y prevents X from stealing it, and additionally gives X a kick in the ass, then that might be justified, but it's not just an act of self-defense.
Nope totally agree, can’t just do videos myself either unless it’s a high level systems topic with visuals. Need to get into the code too
Seems weird to me that asking a specific question about what it is you're trying to achieve would be negative. Especially since most interviews often open with feel free to ask clarifying questions or something along those lines.

If the prompt is unclear its worth getting clarity, just like if something is unclear in the job you seek clarity, I feel like people not asking questions would be a big red flag.

of course, asking too many (this is subjective but I think we can all think of a reasonable situation where there were too many questions being asked relative to their value) could be a red flag
I haven't trusted Mozilla since the Pocket incident. I see they haven't learned the lesson.
It's weird but there used to be a lot of private roads. I hope one day we'll see private internet infrastructure as just as weird.
I have no idea how I consistently miss all of the random advertisements Mozilla apparently does in Firefox. Then again, I have a heavily customized Firefox and I'm used to every 5 or so versions breaking something in my userChrome.css or hiding a button I didn't ask for.
I'm still using Gnome 2 (Mate Desktop) it was first released in 2002.
I don't really agree with this. I think HN gets a pretty decent mix of all political viewpoints, just based on the percentage of times I see stuff that I agree with (politically) and the times I don't. If anything, the thing I really like is the stuff that feels blatantly tribal one way or the other is still consistently downvoted. To your specific points:

1. "as its user base aged from young, hungry, hopeful entrepreneurs to jaded senior engineers or VPs in large fortune 500 companies" I think that's a vast, and honestly unfair, over-simplification. I think a lot of folks have become genuinely disillusioned, and it really has nothing to do with changing with age (heck, if anything, I see young people as being more disillusioned than I am). For example, not speaking so much of any political change, but I certainly vastly underestimated how effective the Internet and social media would be as a tool of division. And I personally have some regret of some jobs I had that made this situation worse.

2. As HN has become more popular I've seen a large influx of more right leaning viewpoints. Of course, I think that's probably just because I consider myself more left/centrist, so it's hard for me to say if there has been a real change in direction, but I think I have seen more just blatant political takes, but again I still see informative, quality comments still bubble to the top most frequently.
And my E46 M3 had interior door trim with glue that melted in the sun and fell off. Oh and the crankshaft bearings ate themselves and grenaded the engine at highway speed (the dealer charged BMW $14k just for the engine on that warranty repair).

Or my wife's Audi where the black coating on all the interior plastic scrunched up and peeled off. And that same car had a CVT transmission with so many failures Audi actually paid off repairs via a class action lawsuit (I got a check for around $4k! first and only time a class action actually benefitted me and not the lawyers). Oh and the defective Bosch ignition coils that caused misfires.

For what it is worth my Model Y (Dec 21) doesn't have odd panel gaps or other problems. It has extremely minimal maintenance requirements. I don't care about the price of gas or even electricity because my solar panels charge it for free. And it is fun to drive.

Not everyone will like the ride, the features, or whatever else... but they are selling every single one that rolls off the fully-booked production line.
What’s your user agent with that browser?
Zero seems like the ideal amount of bias.
Just have in mind that some advanced privacy enhancements (like toggling privacy.resistFingerprinting) can break sites in random ways: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1666160 .
I just saw this a half hour ago... it's still happening.

I was on reddit, and couldn't be sure that it wasn't reddit doing it. Though I half-suspected Firefox. Imagine my surprise when I saw this post.

Nothing about this seems "quickly stopped". The timestamp on your link says nearly 7 hours ago.
The biggest problem with cable news (IMO) is instead of presenting a news story and moving on to the next, they present a story and then give their personal opinions on it. Instead of letting the audience form their own opinions.

In other words, cable news has turned into a level of quality that’s no better than late night talk shows.
> siete pronti per immergèrvi

hehehe
> If a car that costs $25,000 to manufacture all of a sudden can be driven 40-50 hours a week automatically, how much is that car now worth?

That week of driving is worth what an Uber driver’s take-home pay would be for the same week after finance (or equivalent lost interest if you buy with cash), insurance, on-road costs, charging, maintenance, depreciation, and whatever intangible value you put on not having hundreds of strangers farting in your car every week.

Multiply that by the number of weeks that you expect the car to be nice enough to do this, and that’s your return on investment.
> I switched to Librefox

You mean LibreWolf?
Incredibly cool, and the video explains how they made a 3D scan of it in order to reconstruct a playable version with broken parts replaced.

Which seems like it would be the coolest thing ever to 3D print. I'd love to have this on my bookshelf.

Unfortunately, I can only find a primitive playable version that was recreated from an illustration [1], and the museum gift shop sells a 3D-printed version that is unrestored and therefore unplayable [2] -- though the museum shop page doesn't seem to load any content [3].

But 4:34 [4] in their video shows the detailed scanned version with restoration that is playable: "To this end, we made a 3D model of the replica in which Ljuben Dimkaroski added the missing pieces."

I wonder how I could get/print one of those...?

(I also wonder whether a 3D printed plastic one would sound any good... Another source [5] indicates the playable version is a clay replica.)

[1] https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:500840

[2] https://www.3d-solutions.si/en/neanderthal-flute/

[3] https://www.nms.si/en/museum-shop/replicas

[4] https://youtu.be/3agcq7fSGC8?t=274

[5] https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/instruments/flute/w...
I've had more than one issue with a digital boarding pass. I now have a paper pass AND a screenshot of the digital pass, just in case.
Russia would be happy to put it to a vote, now that they've relocated over a million Ukrainians from the Donbas to "filtration camps".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_filtration_camps_for...

God forbid we react to the utterly inhumane invasion of Ukraine with the disgust it deserves. Stop trying to make cover for Putin behind a veil of insincere civility.
I don't mean to imply that I'm attempting to not be impressed. Before writing the comment you replied to, I asked a friend who is enamored by the new abilities how I would know my mental model for how it works, and what it's able to do is wrong. If I'm wrong, missing something, or making a mistake. I'd like to know about it. Outside of that, the context for the whole discussion is

> Why do so many assume we’re on the cusp of super-intelligent AI?

And how "smart" text to text engines can become.

My argument is actually pretty close to yours. People that are impressed, want to be. They're looking for ways to be impressed. Just like you think I'm looking for ways not to be impressed. Which, even if I am, it still should be easy to convince me (or others) that super-intelligent AI is coming soon to an API near you!

Right now, the LLMs that are the new hotness, aren't super intelligent. They're not domain experts, they can't play a simple game that children love without cheating. They're easily distracted if you know how to word a question correctly. While it's cool they can generate language that seems to be true, and useful. It's not as useful as what already exists. (For the context that I care about) And, all of these examples are markers of below average intelligence. What's the argument that would convince me that very soon, we'll take something stupid and make it hyper-intelligent? Because that's no something I've seen happen before.

Still, all of that said. Your comment that seems clearly meant to be insulting, doesn't actually make any other point. Did you mean to imply something else? Or was it just an attempt to throw insults by pretending to make an observation? Because the conversation is about if people should be impressed. Which when it comes down to it an opinion, are opinions bad?
Feeling a little bit like you’re applying a motte and Bailey argument here.

The bold claim in the article was that there are many circumstances where adding an index isn’t necessary. Diverse examples were given. These included a MySQL database, where adding an index is no additional maintenance overhead whatsoever (FULLTEXT idx in the table DDL). The implication was that there are many circumstances that affect many people where even cheap and easy to implement indexes were not needed.

Now when challenged you’re retreating to the more defensible position that in the case where you’re querying an ad hoc data structure where you would have to implement your own index that that is often a bad trade off. Or maybe it was a bad tradeoff because this was a small app you were building that you knew you would be the long term maintainer for.

But that’s not what I’m talking about is it, and I don't know all the specific circumstances of your single specific project where this was the right choice, so we’re not going to get anywhere.
> Are you saying the realm of acceptable things one can say had shifted to the right? I may have misunderstood because I've never heard that before.

I'm kind of surprised by your surprise, because i feel like for years now people never shut up about the realm of acceptable things shifting right.

Although personally i think its less a right/left thing and more extremes on both sides becoming more vocal with the moderates being squeezed out. Its always easier to fixate on the crazy thing the other is saying then to look at one's own side.
>The first derivative of wheel speed is *almost* always car acceleration.

There you go, you answered your own question. When it comes to safety features, "almost" always working isn't really good enough.
Not talking about suburban sprawl, just living next small city over.

But "tons of houses and not a shop or anything else in sight" is of course a problem on its own. Thankfully not really in my country, there is usually some local shops nearby everywhere
Go arken. https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js
Thanks so much for linking that. This is 1000% on point and I'm so confused with what mozilla has been doing the past few years. It's like the organization as a whole suffered a stroke, and the result is this flowery meaningless prose.
no, racket lang is a racket
Yup, I've misread and confused the two too many times
Seems odd to rate HN given it's an aggregation of articles from other sources.
Lila Lavender, the 2019 national debate champion, whose paradigm reads, “Before anything else, including being a debate judge, I am a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. . . . I cannot check the revolutionary proletarian science at the door when I’m judging. . . . I will no longer evaluate and thus never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist positions/arguments. . . . Examples of arguments of this nature are as follows: fascism good, capitalism good, imperialist war good, neoliberalism good, defenses of US or otherwise bourgeois nationalism, Zionism or normalizing Israel, colonialism good, US white fascist policing good, etc.”

The irony is that all this tireless and uncompromising thought policing (and the exercise of their intellectual talents generally) is in the service of system that helps mostly upper-class (and of course white) students pump and preen and collect those extra brownie points -- so they can hustle their into the elite school of their choice, and (in most cases) serve the interests of the ruling class.
The problem there is owning an Audi or BMW, not the sensor itself.
Banana don't have tritium in them. It's not a relevant comparison. Also, tritium doesn't penetrate the skin but can cause trouble when it binds in food nutrients and is absorbed through digestion. It will get in fish and people will eat that. This is not the first release TEPCO is doing and it won't be the last one. They lied so many times in the past that I don't trust them at all. All these little issues, they might compound you know...
We must live in very different bubbles. Hi from over here!
Ironically, China has probably benefited from US hegemony more than any other major country. They are highly dependent on imports of food, fertilizer, energy, and raw materials. The US Navy has kept their sea lines of communication open for free since the end of WW2. Imagine a scenario where the US pulls back and another country like, let's say, India decided to close down China's trade routes. China would be in an economic crisis within months. China is now working to build up a blue water navy and they have other ways to retaliate against threats, but still they are in a very precarious strategic position.
Obligatory follow-up question: I'm guessing you have a reason to only mentioning and using GPT-3.5 in this project, but in terms of more general evaluation of complex prompt handling, did you have a chance to test GPT-4, and if yes, how does it fare in comparison?

I predict that, if you tested it, the answer will be "GPT-4 is much better than GPT-3.5 at this" - but the part I'm interested in is hearing your opinion on how much and how exactly is GPT-4 better at handling these kinds of prompts/interactions.

(If my prediction is wrong and GPT-4 isn't much better than GPT-3.5 here, that would be even more interesting to hear about.)
What are people who need a browser supposed to use? Chrome..? Would that make for a healthier web?
I see a bunch of restaurants using flowcode, which has built-in user tracking. Not sure how many of them use the tracking features, but given that it comes free with the product I’d bet it’s a lot.
Differentially private clustering for large-scale datasets
A multi-polarity framed discussion is fundamentally a might makes right framed discussion rather than a justice framed discussion.

The problem is that multipolarity is often meant to mean spheres of influence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_of_influence). Which is just imperialism by another name.

I agree that the power the US can exercise should be checked by other powers (the desired "benefit" of multi polarity), but I also think the idea of promoting "rule of law" needs to be the frame of conversation.

"What pole of power do you belong to" is a very different question than "what is justice?"

> If you account at all for the inherent advantages of a unipolar world, the US's record is shockingly poor.

I think this statement isn't very well thought out or at least not well founded or self evident.

It's also important to understand that peace is not the absence of physical violence, but the presence of justice. Justice sometimes cannot be achieved without a fight.

> disturb the trivial-to-maintain peace

The "peace" between African slaves and American plantation owners was probably fairly easy to maintain. That doesn't make it a good "peace".

China is exercising coercive power over Taiwan. Are they at peace?
Firefox has been going downhill for a while now, so it's not surprising.

That said, if you don't want to use Chrome, a fairly good alternative would be Vivaldi [0] - a surprisingly neat browser created by the ex-founder of Opera. It's based on the Chromium engine, so no weird rendering shenanigans, but at the same time is quite technically capable, with ad blocking, mouse gestures, email client, etc.

[0] https://vivaldi.com/
The one thing we have going for us is the general public and government officials seem to grok it when it is explained plainly to them. Tech and developer types who have been drinking the Silicon Valley koolaid for too long will complain and sealion, but the average person seems to realize how self evident it is that - oh, this is really really bad and we should really really stop this.
They let you do this with an app?
I just got this ad when opening a new tab. Wild.
Bought! Something in epub was exactly what I needed and loved your chill writing style in the sample chapter, cheers!
and what would that be? google with chrome? mozilla and firefox are the only thing standing between a near monopoly of google on the browser market. safari on mac os doesn't count because it is not available on other systems.
I think it's shifted somewhat in a US-specific authoritarian-left direction as that becomes a bigger force in US tech culture. I don't think people are more cynical than before, but it's expressed differently; the live-and-let-live culture has vanished under polarization and toxic positivity, and again I think that's a strongly US phenomenon. I also think that it's partly an explicit top-down shift, particularly with dang taking over and having an explicit policy that is anti- particular kinds of negativity even when that negativity is correct (e.g. telling people they're wrong is moderated a lot more harshly than before).
You didn't read the article. This is mainly customer complaints, safety issues, and internal processes. Also, read the actual policy your article references; they aren't suing people for patent infringement (which is kinda cool), but they also haven't released anything. (aren't patents public?)
Source article text, Handelsblatt: https://pastebin.com/S49ttUqf
The advertising potential of writing directly to the brain is too big to ignore. Instead of hoping that a portion of viewers will buy the product, it's much more efficient to simply modify their desires directly. Sure, it will put a bunch of marketing folks out of a job, but such is the march of progress.
Does it even make sense to say the Overton window shifted one way or another? The claim is meaningless without also including whether the window widened, narrowed or stayed the same width. The whole point of the window is that it defines the left and right bounds of acceptable discourse. So does "shift right" mean that both the left and right edges shifted to the right? Or that the left stayed in place while the window widened to the right? Or that the right stayed in place while the window narrowed toward it?
Ask HN: What's your experience of value over cost of e2e tests?
https://pastebin.com/S49ttUqf
Well, yeah, in my current on, but if it is new car with integrated tablet style infotainment you might not have place to put it and would have to look for something specifically made to fit it.

And might have A/C controls built into infotainment...
How? Fork the engine or whole thing? How to pay for it? Costs many $$$ to build. Would maybe cost less without the stupid things they do but...seems a difficult calculation to make.
Just added some rough examples to the homepage for the time being - thanks again for the idea
Reminds me of Hangfire on .NET. I haven't used it since a previous job in 2016, but it was easily one of my most favorite tools. You can have it serialize scheduled tasks to Redis or SQL Server -- you can get the same durability guarantees the underlying storage mechanism has. The API couldn't be more simple to use: https://www.hangfire.io/overview.html

Being able to reliably fire-and-forget or schedule background tasks from a web app can be really powerful.
> The goal of a PhD education is to learn how to do research, first and foremost.

This is vague to the point of meaninglessness. To wit, consider the following questions:

1. What is "Research"? (In PhD school the de facto answer is "whatever things get published in top conferences")

2. What does it mean to "learn how to do Research"? (I argue the most important skill is knowing which questions to ask, but that's not something that PhD students or even Professors every get to actually do -- your funding agency's friendly managers/directors will clearly articulate the set of questions you are permitted to ask during Proposer's Day workshops.)

All of that to say: learning how to do "Research" is the goal that students are told they're supposed to have. The actual goal of a PhD program is to generate income from overhead on grants. This has a nice side benefit of occasionally producing valuable licensing revenue streams. That anyone learns anything is a happy coincidence.
Evaluating whether to adopt Playwright tests and would love other people experience. What were your pain points, does it scale well, is it easy to monitor? What to watch out?
It's really weird how every time this happens, Firefox promises it will never happen again until next time.
It was neither read-heavy nor write-heavy.
if you give it a go, post the link. I'd be interested.
Cars aren't suddenly going to cost more because of that...
Less as that cost component is removed and replaced with an ROI on the cars costs.
Weird. I was going to posit the exact opposite. Like the window has shifted left and this site may seem lean a hair right of center because of it.

Maybe the window is shifting so fast in both directions everyone in the middle just kinda orbits back and forth?
Happened to me too, even though I thought all ads were disabled in my modified libre/wolf profile.

I guess I have to go back to ungoogled chromium as my main browser again and start working again on RetroKit.

Good bye Mozilla, thanks for now being the corporation hell hole that you initially fought against.

I guess that's what happens if you fire the people that actually cared for the project.
Private roads aren't weird most people use them every day as that is how most people reach homes or businesses they wish to visit.
Neither of which completely solves the problem of how to determine the depth of objects in the scene.

We move our head to ascertain depth. LiDAR uses laser pulses.