skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best RVing advice I was given was to not buy an RV and buy a pull trailer instead which somewhat correlates to the TFA's "bigger is not always better". RVs get horrible gas mileage, and are not easy to drive around. This is why you see a lot of RVs pulling trailers with a smaller car on it. The trailer route allows you to drop off the trailer and then use the pulling vehicle separately. I'm sure it's confirmation bias, but people I know that have RVs use them less than the people I know that have trailers.
"I've had it with social media sites. I thought HN could be a last bastion, then I saw a dude arguing that he wasn't sure tuberculosis was as bad as it's made it out to be and decided it was just as shitty there as everywhere else. I went to delete my account and found out I couldn't, which hilariously strengthened my resolve to delete the account.

I'd say thanks but I think it's extremely stupid that you're making me resort to this method to achieve the desired result that a half dozen other sites had no issue letting me get to without explaining why or waiting in a multi-day queue, so I'll just say, I hope you have a nice day."
How can you be a moderator on reddit, defend reddit on other sites, meanwhile they still don't have adequate native moderation tools that have been promised for months now? I genuinely don't get such allegiance. At least get paid for it or SOMETHING.
I like Inoreader on Android. The ability to swipe down to load the full text of a post in a partial feed is worth the app alone.
It's not a strawman when it's literally the man I'm responding to.
This feels like an extremely _sparse_ space as a user. There was Heroku, which was the undisputed hero when launched and for many years, until they got acquired and things started going down and down. Then currently AFAIK there's Fly and Render, and very few alternatives.

AWS/GCS is not in the same space, they are a lot lower level. For someone like me I'd hate having to move to AWS/GCS, I just want to code my project locally, git push and it's live, no fumble with devops stuff. Also Firebase etc is a bit too high level for what I like, I still like to build the project locally and have it run on my computer fully.
not sure this is a good comparison. midjourney likes much shorter prompts, and honestly they're all absolutely terrible for anything that isn't 'photo' based. E.g. ask it to generate a word bubble of the most common programming languages and it will fail every time, no matter what you try. I love it for photo stuff, but for photoshop you'd expect it to be able to do other things as well.
https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/

Not advocating for this, I do not own one, but I'm pretty sure this substantially covers all goals listed minus #8 (plus an unlisted one - Signal integration).

I investigated and considered this option carefully. Ultimately ended up doing a Pixel running GrapheneOS (no microG) as a stop-gap until I buy either a Pinephone or Librem, once those are a little more usable.
$25 and $65 did not include parts (the oil or filter)

I use synthetic, and their markup is so much it's cheaper to just provide them with my own. Hell their price for filters is more than the parts counter at the dealership.

Quick lube shop, so the least qualified people you can get to lay their hands on your vehicle. Gonna be honest, I check there's still oil in my car when I get home.

And yes, the quick lube shop is always trying to upsell me services I "need", like $100 to change my air filter, or $80 to change my cabin air filter (both which are literally 1 minute jobs), and $20/$40 parts from the dealership. Same with brake fluid flushes and other things.
Are you saying you can build a modern desktop without any binary blobs? Full control of all firmware (including the CPU microcode and things like Intel ME)? What about WiFi cards? I'd say that hasn't been true for at least 20 years.
I hate writing resumes and love the idea, but unfortunately I had issues using the site

- I couldn't enter my own options for job titles etc, as pressing enter wouldn't make it accept the text I'd entered

- I couldn't actually download the free resume, it just said 'Downloading' and did nothing

- I didn't enjoy the fact it emailed me without any indication or opportunity to provide the email that I wanted to use

Browser is Chrome for android FYI
Not with typography though, haha. It can't spell. I had to draw the letters myself
These are great shouts! Thank you so much for sharing. One of the operations I ran with this was ~500GB and yeah it takes a few hours to catchup. For us, it wasn't an issue, especially also since we were on AWS Aurora. However, that said, I can totally see it being not feasible on other database engine/systems. I considered the idea of dropping all the indices and re-creating it once the catch up is complete. I'd like pg_easy_replicate it to support that. It should make the initial COPY lot more swift. On a 200GB large DB it cut down down the total time by 90%.

Re: bi-directional replication, you read my mind :). https://github.com/shayonj/pg_easy_replicate/blob/8df94aa93f...

These two features are top of my list to support in pg_easy_replicate
Some people really can't wrap their heads around the fact that reddit's valuation is entirely based on its UGC and cost-free moderation.

It's the most effective form of protest I've seen yet.

> Especially with this all being about the need to have slick iPhone app access without paying for it.

This is so narrow viewed that it borders on dishonest. Every single app dev, who I guess are what, all selfish colluding jerks? Have concluded that reddit's pricing is untenable. Not to mention the lies, gaslighting, and complete lack of communication WITH THE DEVS WILLING TO PAY.

I really wish people would stop talking out their rear about this. It's not hard to just not comment on things you have a fledgling understanding of.

Feel free to read the latest synopsis fro Sellig for precise, detailed receipts on every last bit of this.

I guess the gaslighting works on the people on the edges though.
> But well, personally, I would ignore the feature and go without enum types (notice that it's a recent addition).

Postgres has had enums since 2008
So true. And in fact I would argue that it is more often than not the opposite (they apply logic to things that are not, in fact, at all straightforward logical - like biology)
What exact date of 2016 we are talking here?
do not forget postmarketOS project :)
Every single upgrade in resolution has been diminishing returns, and that hasn't stopped anyone from doing it anyways.

The only reason it will ever stop is if we hit major technological or even physical barriers. And even then, we'll most likely just move onto another technology that allows yet higher resolution.
Eternal September was a problem in old chat rooms and IRC servers too. Discord isn't unique here.
> For phones I think some people now may find it amazing to be in the middle of nowhere and not have a phone. No voice or data just you in the middle of nowhere with a wallet and a few quarters in your pocket. You get lost or car breaks down? Too bad it's now your job to figure out a way to get back home or anywhere really.

I was in my early teens when cellphones became universal, and I remember thinking of how so many movie plots were going to become unusable or require an implausible amount of battery deaths to be added. Non-supernatural horrors or thrillers, comedies of errors, a lot of crime stories...
A two year old video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=58kEzTpPzS0&pp=ygUPU2t5RHJpdmU...
I have historically had a “drop-create script” that could handle building me empty tables. Typically split up so that I can create tables, import (test) data from a snapshot or synthetic source, then enable constraints and indexes.

So even if a tool like that needed a little boost at the beginning to get going, I’d have something that already took care of that.
Baseband and cryptographic shenanigans are a pox to FLOSS/H.

Particularly on the hardware front, since there is a vested interest/requirement for operating Telco's to maintain backdoor functionality/capabilities for the local government. It's just like payment processing.

Everyone having their own stack is such a great sounding idea, but the Establishment/System is tuned such that it can never happen, and in the event it does, it's guaranteed to be dismantled because every ne'er- do-well will start exploiting it, and the vast majority of people are not interested in protecting themselves... They want someone else to do it for them.

It's one of those nice things we just can't seem to get our shit straight enough as a society to have.
No there are some farmers that essentially need to just go out of business because their profit comes exclusively from badly priced water.

There are a lot of big reforms that need to happen, but they’re big, often involving several states, international treaties, and long standing expectations.

It’s not a “why don’t you just” situation but a complex system of varied interests that have to renegotiate.

The core problem is that people, voters, need to understand the complexities. “Saving water is good, let’s do that” is hard enough to agree on right now… balancing the needs of many is very very difficult with a poorly informed and motivated electorate.
The users that are the most likely to benefit from this kind of tool are also the least likely to be able to judge the quality of the edits it produces. Especially if you're not a native English speaker you might not notice that it changed the meaning of the text in some way.

It wasn't hard to trigger problems here, it isn't like this mostly works. And it also breaks code in a way that invalidates the question. With no visible trail of the original question being available.
Anxiety as well as other mental illness has been found to be more prevalent among people who identify as "extremely liberal"[0]. Extremely liberal people tend to have a world view that global warming is going to kill everyone within a few decades.

Coincidence?

[0]https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unique-everybody-els...
instead of "free" what term/expression should the company use for their "free" tier?
Lightweight CLI to see who followed and unfollowed you on GitHub
A simple CLI that watches and let's you know if anyone has followed or unfollowed you recently on GitHub with some cool caching mechanism.
I think the explanation of the Fermi paradox is "interstellar travel is hard".

In God's geometry there is likely no way to say "faster than light" and we talk about it because we learned Newtonian physics before relativity.

Thus we (the life forms of this universe) are stuck with interstellar travel methods that require large amounts of time and energy. There has lately been the positive development that we think now we can stop at our destination with an artificial magnetosphere that creates drag with the interstellar medium, but it is hard. I'd imagine it takes 10,000 years to make it to a a nearby star and involves mastering deuterium-deuterium fusion. Instead of making the trip in one long shot, it would be possible to stop for fuel at comets, rouge planets, etc. along the way.

It seems to me that anyone who mastered that kind of technology might not care much about dry inner solar system planets when they could cut a planet like Pluto into pieces and construct a much larger habitat (room for trillions of people.) They very much may develop a comfortable lifestyle between the stars and in outer solar systems and just not care.

Imagine someone spent 10,000 years traveling between the stars and wanted to land on an Earth-like planet: they'd have the technology they needed for the journey, but they'd need some kind of "space shuttle" specialized for landing on an Earth-like planet. It doesn't make sense to carry one with them, if they are lucky they have plans to 3-d print one, but they possibly optimized their 3-d printers for making fusion system parts and other things they needed and maybe the old plans don't work. What's clear is that nobody has done such a thing for longer than humans have had civilization so the project of landing on Earth and returning to their "mothership" would be as formidable as us developing a space shuttle.

There are ideas like: "lets build self-replicating machines and fill up the galaxy with them" but that has to be tempered it being a high risk and zero reward project (e.g. by the time these start returning data maybe all your successors are dead or have changed so much you could care less what happens to them)

The easiest kind of meaningful interstellar communication might be a destructive attack with high-speed projectiles. Breakthrough Starshot was planning to launch a single microchip, but the energy content would be similar to a 1 megaton hydrogen bomb. If that hit a planet it would explode in the atmosphere and do little damage on the ground, but something scaled up could be quite dangerous. There's a case that we should make no effort to broadcast signals to other stars because it could well make us a target, the same could be true about other projects such as replicator probes. Playing it safe could be playing it quiet.
Just look up the margins on Tesla’s cars vs EVs from other manufacturers. For example, Tesla’s net profit margin in Q1 2023 was 13%, meanwhile Ford is hoping that their electric vehicle division can get to 8% net profit by 2026 (they currently lose money on them)
Exactly. And there are some instances with people that really care about some subjects... a bit like Reddit 10 years ago. Those are prone to create something great.
It is decentralized in a way, like cash, but it's not as safe as cash. Technically cash isn't decentralized but for all intents and purposes it may as well be. Especially USD because anyone in the world will accept it.

It's a little harder to scam/dupe someone with cash (especially in the US with USD because of the centralization) and you have the government to help if you receive counterfeit money. That's the part that makes bitcoin fully decentralized and a pain in the ass to deal with other people and trust - nobody wants to help you if you get scammed with bitcoin. You're completely on your own and wholly responsible for anything that goes wrong.

There's nothing stopping you from meeting with someone and sending them bitcoin to their non-custodial wallet to buy their old patio set. There's also nothing stopping you from making a craigslist ad to trade your cash for someone's bitcoin from their non-custodial wallet. Well, except for fear and how sketchy it would be to stand around waiting for a confirmation before handing over the cash. I can admit the fear and sketchiness goes to 11 though and if that never changes bitcoin will never go mainstream because cash will always be better.
> south of $50k

"South" to mean down or below, and likewise for north, drives me up a wall. If you are standing at the south pole, north is down. There's also no concept of up/down in space, and so northern hemisphere normalcy is false. To Australians, North America is below!
The hardware and software stacks of all of the components of a smartphone are at the pinnacle of modern engineering, requiring an uncountable number of engineers and consumers to maintain a mind-boggling supply chain.

Of course there's a price for this.

I gave up and got a Nokia 105.
platforms create a two sided market, inflating their own value as middlemen and blackbox (if not publicly listed). What mastodon showed is: how high is the bill really? as in: given the opportunity, maybe users will foot the bill and having an incentive to optimize for cost.

My only worry is a tragedy of the commons scenario.
Yup.

I had aplastic anemia as a kid. (Fixed with a bone marrow transplant.) I previously had a summer job cleaning a small PCB mfg (1983). It was fucking awful. I read that company was later fined for improper use, storage, and disposal.

Can't prove cause & effect, of course. But childhood aplastic anemia is pretty rare in my area (vs agricultural areas). So it's plausible.
I don't know if I see that happening. They'd either have to either give it away for free as part of the bundle, or raise everyone's prices. The first would be bad for revenue and the other would cost them customers that don't care about Github.
Microsoft is a serious corporation, i.e. a fat target for lawsuits. That makes them more trusted by default than random fly-by-night startups.

On top of that, any medium or large business using Microsoft tools will have a contract signed with them, one that covers SLA and data handling policies. In fact, this is pretty much the entire value proposition of Azure deployments of OpenAI models - from a corporate POV, OpenAI itself is a fly-by-night startup that can disappear any day, while leaking the company secrets your employees gave it all across the Internet. In contrast, Microsoft's ChatGPT (the very same models) comes with an SLA and data handling policies suitable for dealing with corporate secrets (with whole stack of audits and certifications behind them). That's why corporate will tell you to not use ChatGPT, but if you're lucky, they'll give you access to a copy of it on Azure.
Solitude is essential for mental health, especially for introverts. There's nothing lonely about solitude when you know you have friends, family, and love waiting for you at the end of the trip.
Ive also heard that almonds need a lot of water but how true is it? From what I've read:

1 almond requires 1 gallon of water
1 egg requires 50 gallons of water
1 8oz steak requires 900 gallons of water
I use calyxos as well and have microg disabled. WhatsApp works fine, signal, telgram works great, fairemail client for emails, davx5 for contact syncing etc. I don't use any google apps expects camera app (which I have disabled data access using firewall), but I have a feeling those may not work so well on calyxos.

Only problem - which I actually think is a feature is that I don't get any notifications for a lot of apps, unless I actually open the app. I really think this is a great thing because most of these apps that use google services for notifications are just sending marketing modifications which I would have blocked anyway. I do sometimes miss WhatsApp call because the notification doesn't work properly but I have told all my friends and family that they can contact me on signal for fastest response.
I'd rather stay with Supabase+Hugging Face API endpoints or just straight up raw dog it with DO/Lambda/Banana.dev
David Pogue pointed out “jerry-rigged” design of OceanGate’s missing Titanic sub
Probably not THAT small, but not most workers, and I guess I feel that articles like these, reflecting the work that the authors themselves do, make it that WFH-capable jobs are the default. Office workers are normal, and taxi drivers aren’t. But that might be reading a bit much into it.
That is correct, although the filter location on my first gen Tacoma is also not ideal.
I've always found those unsexy backwater jobs to be much harder to bag than the usual big tech cos.

- They tend to work with recruiters who don't specialize in tech and end up rejecting resumes for superfluous reasons like not having "experience with JSON". These recruiters are also vulnerable to dishonest/targeted resumes and skip over people with relevant experience in alternative technologies.

- They only hire one or two people at a time. A big tech org could be picking up 5-10 people every week through the same JD.

- Nepotism runs rampant here because there isn't a standard org-wide interview process involving multiple people. Often the whole thing is CYA theatre when the HM already knows who they want to hire, or they need to immigrate a neighbor or relative.
That doesn't seem right, do you have any source? VLF wouldn't stand a chance of reaching that deep and ELF requires extremely large antenna to work. More likely they were using some form of underwater acoustic communication, sending and receiving data through sound instead of radio waves.
The Dynamics of the Ukrainian IT Army’s Campaign in Russia
That's interesting, I'll try it for a month, thank you!
Just get a Tacoma or Tundra and put a Kimbo on it. Drive everywhere, even the cities.
I switched feedly after Google Reader was shut down, and it's never given me a reason to try anything else.
> Most RVs are absolute trash for quality south of $50k.

It sounds like the pandemic generated such a crush of orders that now even more expensive ones are slapped together at the factory.

Mercedes Streeter at The Autopian (spiritual heir to Jalopnik) has been looking at her parents’ new RV.

https://www.theautopian.com/my-familys-62800-camper-is-junk-...
I've lived in nearly every EU country mentioned here. Almost everyone is wrong. The only European country worth considering is Switzerland, all the rest come with serious shortcomings:

- UK: Dystopian, collapsing infrastructure, London is super-expensive.

- Germany: Salaries are not generally high, taxation/bureaucracy/housing in the desirable parts.

- Ireland: High taxes, extreme dysfunction, crazy housing costs.

- Netherlands: High taxes and insane wealth tax on your savings and investments based on fictitious assumed rate of return. With current inflation, if you want to build wealth, NL should be last on the list.

- Sweden/Norway: Average (not high) salaries, high cost of living, high taxes.

- Spain/Portugal/Italy/Greece: Low salaries, high taxes, extreme dysfunction.

- Belgium/Luxemburg: Salaries can be higher than average, but I found living there depressing. Cost of living is high.

TL;DR Go to Switzerland. Better yet, move to US. There's no country in Europe that comes close.
Amazing how quickly Dalle-2 went from among the best image transformers to among the worst.
> 8 straight hours on a zoom call

I know this is my entitled Big Tech worker bias, but... surely there should be a lunch break?
Money is no longer free and abundant. Simply turning free investment money into growth and possible future revenue is no longer an option for most companies. Boards and bean counters have collectively started pressuring everyone to focus on revenue asap.
Why the caffeine? Is that not counter productive?

If you do find that beneficial you might want to try the nicer japanese green teas - they have higher amounts of L-Theanine which has relaxing effects on the brain (and of course caffeine as well). Works much better for focus than just caffeine alone in my case
Really? I see a problem with people joining the military regardless of their age, but especially if they're too young to be sufficiently critical of whatever they were told by the recruiter.
Demo or freeware.

Personally I prefer demo, because it's a demonstration of what you can expect.
Sounds like Tesla is hurting to start lowering that barrier to competitors.
I am not aware of this happening for such overtly conflicted reasons in Canada/UK/Australia/US/Europe/etc countries... That would be messed up, considering all the risks and consequences (although weighing all the risks of delivery is not something laypeople can do without expert guidance, it's really complicated and every case is different).
They do. Mostly due to associating with Tencent.
Interesting, thanks, I'll try it for a month!
Yes. CCS2 has not technically won yet as being the default port for all EVs in Europe, but any other option would have to have significant advantages over CCS2 to win, features that a potential CCS3 version would not be able to support.
At least in North America and Europe cellphones started getting traction in the early nineteens and were pretty widespread in 2002.
I’m not glad California is exporting alfalfa or almonds. They’re just wasting water on crops that should be grown elsewhere.

Many other things should be grown in California, but you know, be smart about it.