skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it's wasteful but let's leave "climate change" out of it and call it what it really is: ecological load.
Also, dishwashers.
I bet a decent number of those homes are cheaper than a 1200 square foot home built in the 1960’s in Cupertino and Mountain View.

Despite their issues, I would also bet that the McMansions are much nicer to live in and raise a family in.
I don't have a date for that story - but I would expect it was before the widespread adoption of Touch Tone in 1963... And maybe the authorities were more lenient then, as well as with faculty. I think this was probably late 50s or early 60s. I imagine DTMF was deployed at MIT before it was done nationwide. Not trying to rewrite history - just saying theres a lack of detail in my comment and yours.
I like your name! What is shacking?
Sony Mocopi – Compact Full-Body 3D Motion Capture
No I’m Canadian, and those are American. I subscribe to Apple News for access to some Canadian sources, including my local newspaper. Though I don’t think it’s very good.
So envious of bad architecture.
Firesale
Agreed - I laugh when people call me a “salesman”. Matchmaker and project manager are more in line, with a whole lot of very specialized knowledge of finance, marketing, negotiation, soils, fencing, construction, environmental law…
McMaster University’s Imaginary Sex Ring
This argument makes absolutely no sense to me.

The large tech acquirers have extremely high market valuations partly because of the expectation that they continue to get away with doing exactly this.

If we had more competent competition regulators and this sort of acquisition was basically not on the cards at all, ever, once a company reaches a certain size then that value would stay in the innovating startups until they IPO or are acquired by a smaller, less predatory/monopolistic company. Either way there’s still an attractive exit.

We need to stop inventing reasons to tolerate and justify this behaviour that is clearly bad for society and start pushing for a more diverse tech ecosystem with proper antitrust enforcement.
In terms of direct evidence of what the FTC thinks, I don't know. But it's interesting that India had some anti-trust action against companies that both owned online meta-marketplaces and had shops selling in the same marketplace. The theory applies here in that Amazon operates logistics and online presence for a shops, but operates it's own shop with potential information from all the other sellers. Self preference, or selected partner preference may be an issue:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2020/08/26/indian-...
Depends on how you brew and what features you like in the brewer.

If you're using it at home, can sacrifice a little more space, and are doing more of an immersion brew then maybe go for a Hario Switch or french press. The Switch looks a lot like a cone brewer but has a ball valve at the bottom. There is still a wee bit of plastic involved but less than aeropress. You can grind for and/or use filters designed for faster draw down, personally I use a cloth filter which is a bit of faff as you need to rinse it out and store it in the fridge in a cup of water. Paper filters on the switch, in my experience, lead to over extraction unless you grind coarse etc etc.

If again you're at home and are really more into the high extraction pseudo-espresso kinda cups and you have more counter space, mental space, and wallet space to give to coffee then maybe go for a Flair lever espresso.

If you're not at home I don't think you're finding something without plastic.
For me, this loops back to the age-old question "Is there honor among thieves?".

Or, to put it in another way, whose to say that they deliver at all?

The site appears barely functional, their own social media accounts have laughably small follower/subscriber numbers considering what they claim to offer and unless I am mistaken, there appears to be an active effort, beyond the often cited meassure that ensures voting on directly linked posts does not affect the vote count[0], to keep everything honest.

[0] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...
The question isn't if but when. If you look at California's geologic record, it has suffered massive flooding every several hundred years AKA Ark storms. The majority of the Central Valley turns into an inland sea in these situations and the locations of many current cities would be underwater.

USGS sediment research in the San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Barbara Basin, Sacramento Valley, and the Klamath Mountain region found that "megastorms" have occurred in the years: 212, 440, 603, 1029, c. 1300, 1418, 1605, 1750, 1810, and, most recently, 1861–62. Based on the intervals of these known occurrences, ranging from 51 to 426 years, for a historic recurrence of, on average, every 100-200 years
> In Germany we have even dedicated anti-hacker legislation.

Where can I read it (I grok German)
I'm using Goodreads to manage the books that I read and plan to read.

I sometimes looks at the reviews of the books, but never look at the star rating because of how uninformative it is. For most of the books that I care about their rating is somewhere between 3.0 and 4.5 and I can't for the life of me see any correlation between the my enjoyment of the book and its rating. I always assumed that this is just a consequence of taste in books being so different for different people. Averaging these personal preferences just doesn't produce a good signal.

Which brings me to the question: does anybody actual care about ratings on Goodreads?
Until recently I owned both MacBook Pro 16 M1 Max and iPad Pro 12.9 with magic keyboard. I love MacBook Pro 16 for work either on desk with connected big display or on laptop stand. Occasionally I use it as a notebook flat on the desk, but don't really like it long term, it forces you to look down which is not comfortable. But I HATE MBP16 to use as a LAPtop, it's too big, I can stand it maybe for 30min, max 1h.

So here comes iPad Pro 12.9 - lightweight (maybe not that light including Magic Keyboard), but it's great to use in laptop way, on chair, in bed etc. Great to browse web, scroll through videos and write notes or emails. I liked this form factor so much that I started to figure out how to make it a coding machine. That's problematic of course, so I ended up buying paid terminal App in App Store to connect over ssh/mosh to some server/other machine and use terminal with tmux/nvim etc. Installed nerdfonds, started using TUIs and it was working pretty well. But, I hate terminals for long term real work. I want to use heavy UI debuggers, click around/browse, move etc, my work is not only inserting text. I considered buying Asus Zenbook s13 OLED and install Linux on it to have two devices to use depending on my mood and physical position I wanna have. But, first, Zenbook is on Intel/Ryzen which means heat and fan noise, two, there are high risks my linux setup will require tweaks and care which I'm not interested in.

In summary: I bought base MacBook Air 13 M2 and use it as couch/cafe machine as alternative to MPB 16. So I have 3 Apple devices. Which is... fine?
He shouldn't have to "use it properly"

He has a smaller website and should be able to use mongo out of the box.

Complaining he didn't do indepth optimizations is ridiculous. He picked 2 database products and used out of the box configs.

Mongo should adjust their defaults if the defaults aren't using the product correctly
“We will shoot your satellite if you don’t block access while over China”.
> But I think it’s worth noting that a cultural tradition emerged that papered over the flawed spec.

Back in 2013 a developer of a feed crawler wrote a selection of things people get wrong with their feeds.

https://inessential.com/2013/03/18/brians_stupid_feed_tricks
i use one of those filters that only show me stories that have at least 50 points. i only read those interesting to me, so i don't know if any stories with fake upvotes make it through, but without that filter i'd be overwhelmed.

i suppose number of comments would work as an alternative measure, but that doesn't work for stories that are interesting but don't generate much discussion. and it potentially would just push people to post fake comments instead, creating more moderation work.
I like the terriblerealestateagentphotos.com post from earlier, but this feels like a parody of that. So far all of these places i'd be besides myself to be living in.
Discord's business model doesn't rely on advertising. A company's value has nothing to do with the number of users it has and everything to do with how much money it can make, so it's theoretically possible for Discord to be more valuable with a much smaller user base if the users are much more willing to pay.
You aren't locked into any news platform at all. They're all totally open and you're free to use any you want. You aren't removing a bullet to keep someone plugged into a walled garden here - as I said there's no restrictions on sharing US news, only canadian news. Google and facebook will continue to share US news and it will be the only news Canadians see from them, in effect reducing the reach of Canadian news and promoting american news consumption in canada.

So this bill does the opposite of what it claims to do - it reduces the reach of canadian news, increases the reach of american news, and reduces the amount of money coming in to canadian journalism. Its literally the opposite of everything it claims.
If there’s an average of one or two outages a decade, I can forgive an unpracticed protocol.
Only people who bought in the last few years would be affected, so it shouldn't affect anyone's retirement.

And why do I care if people are forced to stay in their homes for a decade as opposed to flipping them for massive profits?
Well, the FTC is about to crack down on fake 5-star reviews levying 50k fines, perhaps paid fake endorsements are next?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/30/fake-re...
In 2001 people were still complaining about the pervasive usage of 8.3 filenames due to the legacy of Windows: https://slashdot.org/story/01/03/12/210202/why-are-we-still-...

If a given iPad app is still using a legacy API eight years later, that seems worth complaining about. It might not be Apple's fault so much as it is the app developer's fault, although it is at least indirectly Apple's fault for not introducing a proper file management API from the very outset.
You can't just focus on longevity of the material medium, because then you'll be carving into clay tablets, which we have actual proof that it can last for millennia. Or maybe that is perfect if you only have a few very important kilobytes to store for millennia, don't need to retrieve data through a digital network, and can trust that there will be people who will know how to decode it.

Longevity is a function of both the material stability of the medium and usability (of storage, of retrieval, of space, of scale, of complexity, of cost). If nobody can decode those bits, it doesn't matter if they are still in the medium. The most optimal storage system is not a single technology, it is a well-funded and well-managed institution. You need people to regularly check integrity of redundant archives and replace individual media when they fail. You also need people to migrate the entire archive to new storage technology when the current generation is growing obsolete. The institution has to regularly buy and maintain drives and computers that can read it, which is often overlooked. Another major issue is longevity and documentation of the data formats and encodings. The bits can still be on the medium, and your drive can still read them, but are you're out of luck if you don't know how it was encoded.

"Tape" is not a single medium, it is a class that includes some formats that are now incredibly difficult to decode. Look at this recent thread about what is needed to read from an old IBM tape format, it's an expensive mess: https://groups.google.com/g/bit.listserv.ibm-main/c/AOlRa0qx...
Seriously. They might be the most valuable organization in the world to target for this sort of thing.
Explain. Why not?

The site advertises the ability to track individual handheld VHF/UHF radios, which are within an order of magnitude of the transmit power of cellular handsets. Even if they don't have the power to do that right now, they certainly could in the next generation of satellites.

Or they might already have the power right now and just not be advertising it. Or maybe the hardware is there but the software is still being refined. (This strikes me as the most likely, since the digital transmission from a cellphone is significantly different from analog voice, it would take some different processing layers to handle it.)

With the current constellation, they advertise 24 passes per day, but as they continue to add satellites, it approaches continuous. Furthermore, if the capability is commercially valuable, it's possible that other megaconstellations could just add the functionality to their own next-gen birds and then it's completely game-over.

The limiting factor, as I understand it, would be downlink bandwidth. And there are a number of mitigations (on-orbit processing and compression, etc) for that.
Did anyone think this wasn't happening?
> Oracle's unbreakable linux is a close to useless rip off, littered with subtle gotchas, pitfalls and please-insert-yet-another-license-key-here.

I've never heard of Oracle Linux needing a license key anywhere before. Can you provide a link to somewhere that talks more about that?
Part of that is the OS kernel design. Unlike Linux, Windows has a stable device driver API which makes it easy for hardware vendors to release drivers separately and maintain them across versions.
Try listening to some music with clipping, take 4th of july from Amy MacDonald for instance, now, if you don't hear it clip like mad when she hits the highs, it's your ear, I don't think anything can save that..

It's not like I'm playing my audio in audacity to look for clipping waveforms, but sometimes I hit some song that I really like, and notice the clipping, and spend a bunch of time debugging my setup, and FINALLY look at the waveform, and well...

"people in mastering studios know what they are doing, much better than you"

yea, yet that soft lil waveform is trying to break through the fucking roof, and while it could have done that (up to -3 db!) on my reel to reel player, it has no place to go in an audio file, and so it's just a cut off top, and, behold, gasp! that's where in the song the clipping is, like, the same place, what a coincidence.
I am surprised many people write about ssh into a server. Mosh[1] feels more responsive and it also supports longer sessions.

[1] - https://mosh.org/
Ultimately the same concept applies in my opinion, ROI for both effort and time to be clear. Even today it's in a good place for a lot of things, and will only get better.
I didn't test the site in the dark mode and clearly it needs fixing. Thanks for catching this and reporting!

(the site is a little hacked together when it comes to styling -- I'm pushing streamlit's markdown support to the limit, and it seems like its built-in dark mode was the first to give in)
Not really valuable, maybe it can show where more vulnerabilities are
Biased,.. but I've been building a site that does this for a few years now and reckon it's not bad. It's more of a passion project. Lets you type in books you like and then will find the most intersecting set of other books. https://abooklike.foo // dataset is over a year old, be warned.
How so? An iPad pro plus keyboard is heavier, bulkier and much more expensive than a macbook air. That is the comparison, not "lugging your dell".
What gave it away? The fact that Amazon bought it, retired the API, and put a "Buy on Amazon" button on every book?

Also majority of reviews are fake. Go look at any new Ryan Holiday book months before it is released. Obviously these authors and their publishing teams know how to game the system so more people end up buying the book.

GoodReads has an incentive to sell books. It has no incentive to sell good books. All the good books have < 200 reviews and hardly anyone even knows of them.
Quick reminder: upvotes are not a proxy for quality.

People vote based on how they feel about a product not on the merit of the product itself. In my experience, votes are about 90% subjective, 10% objective. You will not find someone upvoting something they dislike just because they believe it's objectively true, likewise you will not find someone downvoting something they like just because they believe it's objectively false. Votes have very little to do with the thing being voted on and very much to do with the way the voter feels when voting. It's much easier to act on instinct than logic. There is a nontrivial number of people in this world that never realize the difference between their perception of reality and reality itself.

The most popular things are often the simplest or easiest to digest, not necessarily the best for the given purpose. Popularity is not a proxy for quality.
I'm trusting Carl George's words here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/redhat/comments/14jq5i7/red_hats_co...

Those Rocky Linux repos are either not code (website, wiki, etc.), and a few are tools for repackaging/rebranding an existing Linux distro's source code bug-for-bug - an activity which, by definition, does not and cannot offer anything more than the original code already did.
I’m struggling to see how HN without voting would be anything other than a simple timeline of posts with comments.

If you compare the level of “interestingness” of the front page and the first page of new, it’s night and day for me. I still go to new sometimes, but when I do, I feel like I’m doing community service to try to surface the most interesting items for the community.
Weird, having bought/sold a number of houses in the last ten years (our family moved several times), I can't say I've ever run into a real estate agent that seemed like a "high pressure" salesman. Perhaps its just the market so they don't really need to try, but IME the best real estate agents -- on the buyers side, at least -- were the ones that listened carefully and did a good job of finding houses that matched our needs. Definitely requires soft skills/empathy, but not really a sales role.

Do such things exist? Are there real estate agents who are like "and if you buy today, we'll throw in this grill!"? Genuinely curious.

On the general utility of real estate agents...
Really knowing a market and understanding construction/houses/permitting, etc... is a pretty important knowledge/skill set. I had one excellent agent figuratively drag me away from a condo that she understood to have serious foundation/construction defects. The good ones will help you understand what's good/bad about a house, problems to be alert for, etc...

Like a lot of middle men, I think they do provide some service of value. Now, is that worth 3%/6% of a houses value? In many cases, undoubtedly not. We sold a house in Austin when the market was so hot that we got an eye popping offer the day after the agent put a "pending" sign in the yard. I think he did like 4 hrs total work. So afaict, the profession as a whole acts as sort of a rentier over the MLS listings.
> If you're a sysadmin working mainly in SSH terminals, or if you have access to a browser-based cloud development environment, then I could see the iPad fitting into a workflow, especially if you want to pair it with an external monitor of USB-C to HDMI.

Honestly, if that's your workflow just get a Chromebook with LTE
Your dreams come true in the world of GNU/Linux phones (which do not run Android).
Twitter now requires login to browse tweets
Or get both? As a research mathematician, my iPad Pro is for drawing mathematics and reading papers, to get me away from a 32" screen when I'm not coding. The MacBook Air is for when I can't be at my 32" screen.

Coding intricate data structures is like teaching the computer chess. It helps if you understand chess. I can't imagine understanding what I want my code to do, without an involved process of drawing everything repeatedly in many variations.

Someday there will be an iPad drawing editor like Emacs, arbitrarily scriptable using further drawings, never putting down the Apple Pencil. We're still at the earliest stages of "word processing" technical art; this evolution is still to come.
> But can't access it through my home internet, but my phone is just fine if I turn off wifi.

Thanks for the tip. I can't access it via my home provider, but T-Mobile works. Interestingly enough, I'm getting new email notifications on my home provider; I just can't read the mail through it. They're probably using an unaffected Google service for notifications.
As a consumer, I don't really have any preference. Both work fine with my software. My personal blog uses Atom only because my static site generator had an Atom plugin.
Once you build up your seasoning on cast iron, you're not really touching it anymore, much less scratching it, much less machining it. On top of the fact that the pan isn't dry either.

Also eating iron oxide is fine, it's breathing it that is bad.
Red Hat currently releases all sources as if they were GPL sources, but that may stop in the future. EG, an Apache 2 licensed project, they're under no obligation to release the source, but they currently choose to.

That will be the next move for the RHEL sources IMO. They'll probably stop releasing all non-GPL licensed code from RHEL proper.
I bought an 11" M1 Pro when they were released. But not for coding. It was a splurge and I justified it as "home laptop replacement" with a heavy side of "M1 should mean it'll be supported for a LONG time." Similar theory as maxing the RAM on a new MacBook, etc.

Now that the Air has that same hardware, my wife bought that instead of a Pro, and that's what I'd recommend to most people. The extra camera features are pretty worthless IMO (I have an iPhone Pro and a mirrorless for photography).

I have the Magic Keyboard. It wasn't cheap, but it's really good. My wife didn't bother, but she also has an M1 MacBook Air for laptop stuff.
I found it often did what social media is partly designed to do—-make one insecure about whatever the focus is. You’re either not reading the right books, not analyzing and commenting enough on books you read for enjoyment, or not reading enough regardless of your actual place on those subjective spectrums. All their to make you feed the social media machine with your free labor in the form of analysis/reviews or whatever.
I'm not convinced that YC doesn't put their thumb on the scale for YC companies, but whatever the effect is, it's definitely subtle.
The second one is the fake bookshelves one (at least for me). I think that the house really has been lived in with that hideous wall.

But yes there are plenty of bad staging photos, and at least one totally ridiculous photoshop (the sofa planted completely out of perpective and in front of a mirror that ought to be reflecting it).
I have been enjoying https://oku.club/ recently in case anyone is searching for a nicely functioning alternative.
my experience is that usually this comes from CTO/director level and goes across the entire organization. middle managers don't have that much power, their role is just to spread (and watch) the requests across the teams.
A cyber ransom demand at one of the most important companies in the world, a lynchpin of digital manufacturing is not reassuring at all. Can their security really be that bad?
Heh, it is surprisingly expensive. Does it mean HN ecosystem is not that easy to break compared to other sites?
> Surely, given the size of the demand, it is beyond the authority of TSMC to pay up, even _if_ they wanted to?

Think again. Companies try to hide it really well but million-dollar ransoms are paid all. The. Time.

Likewise with insurance payouts for kidnapping ransoms
Yea because some suffering before being beheaded is far worse than being slowly eaten alive....

Do you even comprehend how carnivores eat?