skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a series of matching Whirlpool/Maytag appliances like 5-10 years back. They're all garbage. I already had to replace an element in the oven, it burns its own insulation sometimes and the glasstop takes eons to heat but then blows through the desired temperature and incinerates my food, the fridge has a light that flickers and it accidentally freezes stuff stored in the back near the vents, I had to replace a piece of plastic in the door that broke with some washers, the dishwasher fails to scrub things clean despite me following the best "Technology Connections" practices for dishwasher ownership despite how difficult it is to reassemble after cleaning (the clips almost fit together).

My kitchen is overdue for a remodel. I'm going to end up breaking the bank on a full set of Bosch appliances or something, these American-Chinesium products are clownshoes.
Having parameters for "temperature" and so forth, while it might provide sometimes useful functionality, does not change the basic nature.
Anonymity is not required for free speech to function.
My Samsung fridge is the worst thing I've ever bought.
Well, I'll be the cranky old man today - I just want a box that keeps my food cold enough not to hurt me. That's really all I need and I imagine all I will need 20 years from now.
> it sure does undercut Meta's ethical high ground, that they will tell people all about their users for money

I'm sorry, where do you infer that? Meta literally refused to do exactly that, and went to court to defend the practice. They're only doing so now because they lost.
Fact finding is part of the court's job. The courts are the institution we've established to do that job.

A case has a fact-finding part, then a part where the law and precedences are matched to the facts as found, then a decision.
I agree with you but also feel there should be enough competition in these services that a vendor can switch without undue cost if they feel wronged.

I sort of feel as if we're collectively deluding ourselves about the extent and number of monopolies in our current economy.
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It's not really a "Show HN" when it's only a landing page for a waiting list.
Agreed, if they are unwilling or unable to demonstrate it well, why even bother, why waste viewer's time and attention?

A bad/unconvincing/incomplete demonstration is indistinguishable from a scam

If they want to show and distribute the capital-T Truth, they need to take their ego out of the equation
The Classpath is a Lie (2021)
Or just having a completely separate database for each region, much like the average MMO does it.
It looks like machine learning took over in the 2010s after a long convergence starting in the 2000s.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=artificial+int...

This is from published books, so probably less affected by popular narratives. For that, we have Google Trends!

It looks like they trade places repeatedly when constrained to news searches: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=5&date=all_2008...
There is a level where you don't care about more improvements. Fridge is a box of cold stuff. I don't need much more than that.

Sure it could be slightly more efficient but even 20 years old ones are pretty efficient, and I'd rather just slap an extra solar panel or two on the roof rather than replace whole fridge and junk the old one.
Yes, but it's a processing by association, not understanding.
Definitely not as good, doesn't have all the fancy door bits and slick shelves. I would say the OP fridge would have been more than twice as expensive, so maybe $8K for a fridge.

I've still got the fridge I bought after I moved out of Uni halls >10 years ago for £120, so price wise it's probably cheaper to buy fridges every ten years, but terrible for the waste.
I can't believe it doesn't attempt to auto-calibrate after x days of no signal in some kind of exponential ramp up
If you are lucky enough to have quality local ethnic places and have no particular love for mainstream American food, fine. Many towns in America can't do much better than a Chinese buffet, though, for which American chain restaurants are competitive alternatives.
What is cross siging in the messaging context?
> I also like not having a single payment provider have the ability to cut off my revenue if some kind of issue arises

How are you going about this currently? Have you integrated Paypal separately or do you have any other processor along with stripe?
Both the urbanization rate and the homeownership rate were considerably lower in the 1950s and 1960s. Said city housing may have been cheaper, but that is because it wasn't wanted.

Your question is much like asking why we can't afford to feed lobster to prisoners anymore.
I’ve had 8 fridges in 22 years, up until my latest I’ve they were all from this supposedly better age. All failed, in some cases disastrously.

The only one that’s survived longer than a few years for me? The new one. Going 6 years strong.

Not everything on my new one is perfect—I managed to break the built in water jug—but I feel a lot of the replies here need to take into account survivorship bias.
In other words, he expresses some autistic tendencies.

Surprise, surprise --- autism is not all that compatible with social media/advertising/Twitter.

His main talent is being a taskmaster and driving technical people hard.
Hey, I'm the author of this article. I'm really interested in people's thoughts and happy to answer any questions.

PythonMonkey is a Python library for executing JavaScript in Python. In Python you can use it to import JavaScript CommonJS modules with just: `pythonmonkey.require('my-js-lib')`.

We're making PythonMonkey so we can port our complicated JavaScript NPM package to to Python without re-writing it entirely.

We're also building a new JavaScript runtime in Python called PMJS using PythonMonkey that allows developers to use Python libraries in their serverside JavaScript projects.
“Improvements”. Sure, sure.
IMO it's a case where shortening the words is pretty detrimental because the point of authentication and authorization are already in the words and makes sense. Plus both words end with "n" so "authn" doesn't make sense at first glance.
This is it - high quality stuff is often still made, but it's expensive and/or has other downsides that you really do need to be aware of.

For example, commercial equipment is often bullet-proof and long-lived, but it can be louder than you'd want in a home kitchen. Commercial dish washers have no noise insulation, get hot, but can wash dishes so fast they can crack them from the temperature changes.

Commercial ovens have no or minimal heat insulation, so when you fire them up you can really warm up a room fast, and they have to be installed away from flammable materials.

And people need to be honest about it, too - whenever you buy an appliance new, write the purchase date in indelible ink or spray paint on the back of the unit, because I've had appliances I was sure "lasted barely more than the warranty" and then I realized I'd purchased it 15 years ago.
VTOL VR
List of Extraterrestrial Memorials
Fiat money vs sound money.
With fiat money if you produce things that last you get money that devalues over time but no recurring income. Your company fails.
With sound money, money don't devalue as easily, you can produce things that last. Also there may be a psychological effect on giving money more value and therefore wanting more from the things you exchange them for.

Just some thoughts
While I think people who organize these meetings might have a benefit of being able to keep track of everyone, I'm usually surprised how much dead time there is when people discuss what they're working on and there are only 2 or 3 people who are involved in the discussion while 20 or so other people are on the clock doing nothing. The manager might reply that everyone should know and care about everything happening but this is never the case.
They do look very cute, as do all long-skinny forest or river animals (pine marten, weasels, stoats, otters)
I don't understand this sentiment from an HN user. It sounds like you wanted a 5-10x performance boost vs. what we had in 2000.

Today's CPUs are literally like 10-50x faster than CPUs of that era depending on how many cores you're using at once. Storage is an order of magnitude faster as well. Mission accomplished! Software is in general more bloated, so things don't always "feel" faster, but for raw computational tasks like e.g. video encoding they truly are orders of magnitude faster.

I've got plenty of complaints about how the industry has changed since then, but raw hardware performance certainly isn't one.
Except history shows us that in 100% of the cases that working people seize the production and allocate the gains they do a unbelievable bad job. Socialism is the single most failed idea in human history, yet we refuse to properly teach that in our education system. I suspect in the future it will be view a bit like refusing to teach other scientific subjects, like evolution.

In reality a mob of people end up producing nothing without capitalists and markets. There is a joke that the IQ of a mob is roughly the highest IQ in the mob divided by the size of the mob.
Just to be clear, these two are short for authentication and authorization, right?

I guess it's awkward that those two related but different concepts share the same first 4 letters. But I think authc would have been clearer for disambiguation than authn.
Unfortunately the quality is quite bad. In order to really enjoy them I've been waiting for an AI augmented version with better audio and video since they were initially released by Bill Gates. It seems we are not there yet - ChatGPT and Midjourney can't help here.
The Improbability of Wikipedia
I think for any long term products the designers of interface after they get to the optimum are just changing shit to keep themselves employed, while long time or professional users are just getting annoyed on having to re-learn stuff.
I'm surprised the low end has such a high entry point. IME a low end phone was usually 20-100. Above that and the specs are usually good enough for a few years of decent performance.
OpenTDD will always be my go to example for a product of love and good out of open source. People who love the game kept it alive and improved out of pure enjoyment.

Related. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engine_recreation...
It probably is: lead paint is much more durable and resistant, which is why it was everywhere in the 50s
The slide out shelves and the ice tray are nice, but the rest I would not want. It has a too specific use, e.g. ok you have a butter tray but what if you don't want to eat butter. What if a brand shows up that makes butter twice the size, now it doesn't fit anymore. Etc.
PageRank is based people linking using huge scale of the entire internet.

It’s difficult to infer importance based on a couple of thousand documents at most.
To my surprise I've been unable to find an email client that meets three requirements:

- Works on Windows and Android

- Unified inbox for multiple addresses

- Does not take multiple seconds to load an email

So I would happily welcome a new client in 2023
What do you do to your fridges??? I'm in my 30's and have never had to replace a fridge.

Never had a "modern" fridge except as a kid. All looked like low budget fridges from the 80's or 90's.
And which of those things coming out in the last 20 years do people actually need? Wifi-enabled fridge? I'd rather have the features from that b/w clip.
You don't even want to tweet from your fridge? Dude.
The "demonstration" is a photo of a single crumb of material inside a transparent pipette. It's claimed that the crumb is "levitating" inside the pipette, but what's stopping a random internet anon from gluing a crumb onto a pipette and taking a picture of it?

I don't know about you, but if I had just succeeded in replicating a literally history-making experiment, I would perhaps take a video of it, and demonstrate how the crumb actually behaves without the support of the pipette.
I work on pg8000 https://pypi.org/project/pg8000/ which is a pure-Python PostgreSQL driver that works well with pypy. Not sure if it would meet all your requirements, but just thought I'd mention it.
Passports and Power
This is really cool. It does make me miss the Pebble watch though as they dove into color e-ink for certain models as well. They seemed way ahead of the time and it's such a shame they couldn't make it through.
I've seen a huge demand for Paypal as a payment method, especially in Europe. I'm honestly surprised Stripe doesn't offer it.
LK-99 superconductor: Twitter spaces discussion
Most interesting thing I found out so far was that the discovery was an accident in 2018 as the quartz tube was dropped and smashed (this was mentioned in the korean paper they said)
Design guidance for proper electronics connectors
Me fixing a bad micro-USB connector for the n-th time prompted me to write do's and don'ts for mechanical and electrical design of sturdy connectors (not just USB).
We likely actually agree.

The issue is politicians tend to push redistribution and direct action of the government over rules and regulations.
What about microwaves - two buttons - power and time. Right now you have 100000 buttons and everything is confusing.
We use PyPy extensively at my employer, a small online retailer, for the website, internal web apps, ETL processes, and REST API integrations.

We use the PyPy provided downloads (Linux x86 64 bit) because it's easier to maintain multiple versions simultaneously on Ubuntu servers. The PyPy PPA does not allow this. I try to keep the various projects using the latest stable version of PyPy as they receive maintenance, and we're currently transitioning from 3.9/v7.3.10 to 3.10/v7.3.12.

Thank you for all of the hard work providing a JITed Python!
I would recommend VTOL VR if you want a flightsim to play in VR. Works great on my Quest 2.
> opportunity to have a real impact on the world, helping real people, and seeing the direct results of my labor

What do you do for a living?
Disclaimer : I have not yet played LAC, but I used to play GL117 (which LAC is heavily based on).

Though visually it's bit behind what we've been used to, I found some of the fun I had when much younger in F22 Retaliator. And at least, in GL117 (and LAC, I guess) we have a bit of height variation in terrain ;)
Sure but how can I code an ai bot that lives in your fridge and analyzes your shopping habits, and sells that to the highest bidder? Maybe with amazon grocery integration so that it sends your groceries before you even knew you needed them. And Microsoft Tay integration! Ask your fridge questions and have it answer, in a hilariously racist fashion! New Andrew Tate plugins sold as DLC.
Well that's a compelling point in favor of modern fridges.
"A careless slip" really undersells all of the deliberate bad decisions that set the stage for a single slip to have such devastating consequences. Imagine I have decided to balance a bucket of burning gasoline on my head. One slip is disastrous, but focusing on the slip seems myopic.
If management didn't pay well, qualified people simply wouldn't do it or you'd be limited to people who felt emotionally compensated by getting more power over other people (which is already bad enough).
Double decker airframes? Since you're talking about the 1950s, you're sure not referring to what I think that means (747/A380-style "double decker"). What do you mean by your statement.

Smoking on board? Yeah, as a non-smoker, that change was a major improvement. It may have done dirty to the smokers, but those are not the majority...
So, it's a soldering gun with a wire tip? Those are still available.
Cut him some slack, he's only been registered for 10 years
> There is essentially no demographic, other than one defined specifically by adherence to critical theory, for which this is true.

I think the parent comment means for the audience to substitute whatever minority group the reader finds the most loud and obnoxious. In other words, it's nonsense when read literally because it's not meant to be read literally; it's a dogwhistle.
that's a really cool use of tesseract.

one problem: the cropping cut off half the code sample I uploaded. not sure if that was due to the size of the image, the app didn't explain, but if cropping is not require don't require, if it is required explain why.

I did not realize there was a lot of code trapped in images either, it seems like there is a lot of formatted code support as raw text
Life Is Absurd Exploring Absurdism Philosophy
I hate to say this, but many recruiters who contact me seem to reside and work from India. I get all kinds of recruiter attention, including unsolicited emails, calls, and texts, but most of them seem to be looking for a relationship where I do the work, and they subcontract with a subcontractor who's subcontracting for another contract for a major firm.

It's basically spam at this point. How can we "stand out" without getting bombarded with low-quality "proposals"?
One of my coworkers has the grayscale version of that. The refresh rate goes up to maybe 20Hz on "fast mode" which sacrifices quality for speed. It looks pretty good regardless, but IMO the real benefit of these screens is in consuming long-form text content.

My ReMarkable 2 has a perfectly fine refresh rate, especially for writing/drawing. Is yours the first gen maybe?
Maybe, and Hanlon's Razor say's your right ('don't attribute malice where incompetence can explain it').

But it seems here mor like Hanlon's Razor is a handy cover for the fact that interest rates are up, which makes it more enticing for Etsy management to steal their sellers' funds and rake off the interest yield under a flimsy and obscure excuse.

Sure, it's only £800 here and £7000 there, but do it a few 10,000 times, and it'll yield material-to-the-bottom-line cash, and nevermind that it hurts the victims more than it benefits them.

IOW, it is just corporate theft because they can get away with it.
Lots of questions :)

For c-extensions see https://www.pypy.org/posts/2018/09/inside-cpyext-why-emulati...

We would like to be able to "just JIT" better. But for that we need feedback about what is still unreasonably slow, and resources to work on improving it. Right now PyPy is on a shoe-string budget of volunteers.

For rust, like CPython, use PyO3, which works with PyPy.

I am not sure about Pydantic. Sounds like a topic for someone to investigate on their codebase and tell us how PyPy does.
In Amazon terms, great engineers “are right a lot”. That is key in SVP type roles. An SVP isn’t typically managing ICs, they have a very different role than the manager role described in Charity’s article.
Incorporation, specifically limited liability, is specifically there to make it easier and less risky to be an entrepreneur — no matter how hard a company gets sued, the owner can't (normally) be bankrupted.

Likewise insurance.

Also, quick Google immediately found that Australia has an equivalent to GDPR in the form of the Privacy Act (1988).

And GDPR has, by design, extra-territorial effect: https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/

(Extra-territorial rules may seem unreasonable, but they are the flip-side to the internet not recognising national borders: everywhere gets to say you're operating in their jurisdiction).
Why doesn't everyone have old fridges then? You only buy new when the old one breaks down right? But if the old ones were so sturdy why were they all replaced?

I expect there's some survivorship bias at play here.
x86 is dead, long live x86
We did a migration from GCP's Intel based E2 instances to AMD's T2D instances and saw huge 30% savings in overall compute! It is similar amount of savings folks got from switching to AWS Graviton instances, so looks like AMD might keep the x86 ISA still alive
(4) "Optima" is plural, "optimum" is singular. So, 1950-1970 seems like a local optimum.
so you don’t have to click through, it’s $1,748.00 USD
Cops on horseback in California are cracking down on illegal e-bikes
Yeah it is a hard trade off - waste vs efficiency. Sad to see waste generated but efficiency is increasing still, so the energy saving of replacing a device can be large.

I brew beer and a lot of people make keezer or kegerators (fridges or freezers to serve kegged beer from).

So often someone will find an old fridge or freezer and want to use that 'as it is basically free' - ignoring the fact that even a 10 year old fridge can use more than £150 a year in electricity (maybe more at current rates?).

I got a brand new chest freezer for £179 and when run as a fridge is uses £35 a year at current prices - so I'm saving money after the first year.
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Vast topic.

Markets definitely have their issues.

Here are a few:

* The most obvious one is the fact it's an overhead, it doesn't produce goods or services by itself. That's not a major issue, but for example in the US ~5% (~7M of ~150M) of the workforce is dedicated to this overhead.

* It's prone to internal instabilities. Too often, the markets disconnect from the underlying economic reality, sometimes with only mild effects (for example, that time petroleum prices went negative), sometimes with more serious ones (2008).

* It can lead to overly quantitative views, ignoring the qualitative. It's the "metrics becoming the objective and thus compromising the value of the metric" (example: tech stock prices).

* It over-emphasizes individual interests over the collective one (think for example: environmental issues & global warming).

Markets definitely have their issues. But so far, the other systems we experimented with (planned economy) were even less able to cope with the incredibly difficult task of balancing an economy.

Lastly, it is to be noted that we are not operating in a pure market economy.

We are in an hybrid system where States (hopefully representing their people) definitely have a lot of say in economic matters and that's probably for the better.
The Most Valuable US Tech Companies Still Aren’t Buying Startups
It looks like it's under 30fps though to me... not sure if videos would be that watchable?
They've launched it in Europe recently
https://stripe.com/docs/payments/paypal
Well, the patents on that fridge can't be still in action, so why don't you go build it? I suspect no one actually wants it because:

- vegetable shelf is in door

- veg shelf is hard to handle

- ice makers beat ice scraper

- fixed height shelves

- Freezer shelf pull out feature is how they are today, but you need to open this fridge to access them

- much lower capacity

Essentially, this fridge is worse than present day fridge but you could build it today if you wanted and have a failed fridge company that made shitty fridges.
It actually might be pretty decent one as it was using freon which is very good at its job.

The process didn't change all that much, neither did engines used in compressor so it is mostly "how well isolated the fridge is"
Which is fine by me. I need a fridge to cool things down, oven to heat them up and TV to show moving pictures, all without access to wifi and other bells and whistles modern appliances come with. Just the basic stuff that those appliances could handle 20 years ago. More doesn't always translate to better.
Or self order from that big e-commerce that does tax avoidance. You're missing out.
There probably are a mix of factors. A big one that I see is that consumers moved away from "pride in ownership". Modern consumer culture weighs absolute price more than price per quality, so you get products that reflect that priority. Real inflation is also about double the rate of the official numbers IMHO, so the resources to invest in quality aren't as available.
Surely high quality stuff is cheaper than it was 50 years ago when adjusted for inflation.
Article seems to be dead now (HN hug of death).

I think one big reason is the BSD license. With fewer contributors, the ability for companies to create closed source products really helps to justify using it.
free for 10k transactions is rather generous