skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Survivorship bias and "when do I toss it" - I have a freezer/fridge thing from Best Buy (something like this but it was about $300 on clearance: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/insignia-13-8-cu-ft-garage-read... ) that literally is one box that you can dial in a temperature on. It had wifi for some unknown reason that never worked, but still pitifully broadcasts a wifi hotspot. It's been running for five years now, and it can only die by ceasing to freeze; there's nothing else to break.

The fridge in the kitchen, however, has various features, some of which would cause me to throw it away even if it was still functioning as a fridge/freezer - for example, if the ice maker died, I might just replace the whole thing, instead of spending $300 to replace the ice maker, especially if it's a metric pain in the ass to do so.

I try to take a look at repair prices and parts now before buying, because a $500 appliance where the likely breaking parts cost $500 is unlikely to be something that lasts long-term.
This is going to shock people, but appliance manufacturers in the 1950s also had shareholders.
We only speak of Jonny in hushed whispers for what once was.
It's demotivating when you know you're doing 80% of the work, but getting paid the same as the other 5 people on the team. When a company finds a great dev, they seldom have the sense to pay that person enough to make them feel motivated to outperform their colleagues.
This fridge has an ice dispenser that requires you to use a tool to knock out a dozen ice cubes. My fridge has an ice dispenser that runs by itself until a big vessel of ice is full.
I didn't realize it was copied from another post, that makes more sense.
Lab safety wasn't thing and the people in the lab resisted any attempt to create it. It's no surprise people died.
I think the point is more that you can buy expensive fridges today that could last that long - people don't because they care more about spending less on a fridge.
Hi, I've created the empty project here, I'll add the code soon enough, just subscribe for notifications in that repository if you'd like to get updated.
Cool joke.

I encourage anyone on the fence between this libertarian and I to read the "Concessions" essay I linked up above.
That’s because Apple still makes their hardware in China & America. But not in the UK.
Why are you walking with your stroller in the bike path?
Somewhat unrelated but do people have links to share that walk you through taking Llama2 model and feeding it local data - confluence links, Google docs, plain text documents etc. I came across embeddings and langchain but was curious if people had thoughts on better ways to go about it as a newcomer experiment.
Deer have also left them alone for years. Not 20 feet away is the edge of the forest where there's plenty of other food.

We have many hostas and other plants deer typically go for that are left completely alone. The loss of the arborvitaes just seemed really random.

Other than that, the only problem we have had with wildlife in the past 5 years it so is remembering to not leave bird feed out over night- either the black bears or raccoons will steal it rather promptly.
If you are worried about safety, ride your e-bike/bike in the middle of the lane. That is legal in the state were I live and probably most other states.

Yes, NYT is victim blaming, plus if you are driving an auto, penalties for killing some is almost non-existent if you are not impaired. At the very least, you should lose your license for a few years.
Relevant classic: The antique toaster that's better than yours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y [video]
I mean, in general, things we buy today are a lot more "affordable" while being lower quality.

Googling says the average cost of a refrigerator in 1950 was $250 to $400 (for 10 cubic feet -- a fridge today is 20 to 30 ft^3), which would be $3K to $5K in 2023 dollars.

If you pay $3K to $5K for a fridge today (for a fridge 2-3x as big as the 1950 fridge), do you get a better longer-lasting one? I'm not sure.
Meta does not share individual user identities and other metadata the court is demanding with 3rd party advertisers.
I wonder what it would cost to make / sell.
Was that ever controversial in the last fifteen years or so?
But, those are all physical features that cost money to produce each one!

Surely an app that can be cobbled together from some no code framework that we will stop maintaining in 18 months (but you can’t defrost or adjust your temperature without it) will add just as much value, but at zero marginal cost!

Plus, we can’t harvest data from useful physical features!

Bits > bolts!

But the worst part is , bits>bolts is actually very applicable in many cases.

It’s just universal enshitification that has made that axiom in to a sad joke.
Modern gaming in general lacks simulator type games. Falcon, Janes Combat Simulations, Silent Hunter, Wing Commander, X-Wing, Tie Fighter, Strike Commander, Mech Warrior 2.

I used to need a throttle with a toggle, a hat switch, some buttons, a joystick with a couple of hat switches, trigger, a few thumb buttons and I still needed the keyboard for a few functions because I didn't shell out for a HOTAS setup. Now all games can be played on a console controller with less than half the buttons.
Sure, there are also excise taxes levied on different kinds of products (fuel and alcohol being the most common), fees (like disposal deposits on drink containers, tires, and the like) and just in general differential tax rates (certain kinds of foods are not taxed, taxed at a different rate or even, I’ve seen proposed, taxed by the size of container).
I didn't get a lot of blue screens either.

I did a lot of optimization on my systems. Not drastically hacking crap, just obsessively pruning unnecessary services and software etc. Registry cleanup tools. Etc. Also always had as much RAM as I could afford.

I'm not sure if there was a correlation there but it sure felt like it. Seemed like folks with constant blue screens had PCs filled with crapware. Maybe the difference was purely hardware or, purely luck, I dunno.
With the link it might be easier: https://github.com/johanlajili/watashi
Right. ML is less likely to arouse emotions in either direction.
To add to the other two sibling comments pointing out flaws in those shortened terms, in British English it's spelled authorisation, so it would give "auths", which is even more confusing.
Thank you for the recommendation - I've wanted a game like this for years, 'a contemporary F-19' and 'by Micrprprose' too - delightful!
The worst part is that sometimes less price conscious customers will also get tempted in, because they're the only ones trying to push fridge features forward. The 'beverage center' door with a 64oz pitcher that gets refilled on close, allowing you to quickly pour whatever you want, then stow it back in the door to be refilled, is the greatest feature I've ever experienced on a fridge. It just pains me that if I get the fridge, I know it'll only last a few years.
Because it's more convenient to buy a new fridge than to seek out an old one in good condition on the used market? And because they don't manufacture old fridges so the remaining good ones fetch a much higher price? And because there's no way for a consumer to reasonably determine the longevity of a new product before purchase?

I don't necessarily think that's why people aren't buying this fridge but those are reasons why new products can still be successful even when they're worse than the old ones.
For me the app that I use hacker news through has it disabled by default, I click through if I have to and I'm particularly interested
https://developer.paypal.com/reference/guidelines/psd2-compl...
I've created a mostly empty repo for now, you can subscribe to it to know when I've uploaded the code: https://github.com/johanlajili/watashi/
At this point it’s the e-bikes and the mopeds that are the worst. Drivers will behave like oblivious idiots, but they are predictable idiots. We need an NYPD crackdown on e-bikes/mopeds (mostly delivery riders) to get them off the road, so that drivers can reclaim their rightful first place (EDIT: 1st place at being idiots!!).

The mopeds and e-bikes will fly out around a corner and start riding the wrong way (“salmoning”) in a protected bike lane.

Gothamist has an article today covering the recent Manhattan Bridge crash caused by two mopeds illegally riding in the bike lane: https://gothamist.com/news/cyclists-say-e-bikes-scooters-are...
I love being excited about science and research again.

These are the kinds of things I truly enjoy seeing in HN.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940323, I have dropped a message to dang to update the link on the other thread.
That's kind of why I want to be a manager. As a developer I'm tired of having to work with code written from people who don't give a fuck.

At least as a manager, it wouldn't be my direct problem. If the developers want to crunch to fix last minute issues because they didn't do it right the first time then that's their decision; but I don't want to be part of it anymore.
There does not have to have been a date though. The story could have been made up by someone who just saw his profile on some dating site and did some creative writing based on that.
The last time I tried to set up IPv6 with my VPC, it was an absolute nightmare. Maybe I'm not devops-y enough, who knows. But all three of my earnest efforts to use IPv6 have gone pretty badly.

Has anyone successfully used AWS's IPv6 offerings to stand up a VPC/ECS/ALB/RDS using secure best practices without friction? What tutorials did you follow? I'm all ears.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230731135739/https://aster.clo...
I made this in an afternoon. Source is available here: https://github.com/ocore-framework/OCore.Copilot

If you worry about AI taking developer jobs, I feel like it is more likely it will take all other jobs.
I've already wrote about this - this specific one (Chicago65) is actually amazing although still far from perfect. You can spot foreign quirks (including a really ugly one) even on the main screenshot if you look carefully and you will feel disilusioned once you actually try to use this at home. Nevertheless it is actually good, usable and by far better than any other attempt. I use it on everyday basis but I gave up hoping it to resemble Windows 95 and customized it instead. I am very grateful to the author who crafted this.
You mean Xeet from your fridge?
My unsolicited advice: turn on a lamp in your workspace, and turn down your monitor brightness. An app like twinkle tray makes adjusting screen brightness as easy as adjusting speaker volume. Your eyes really don't care about emissive or reflected light.
Interchange fees differ based on card type and features. Visa Signature, for example, has a higher fee than plain Visa.
What is wealth?
If you use recent versions of PostgreSQL (10+ I believe) you can use psycopg3 [1] which has a pure Python implementation which should be compatible with PyPy.

[1]: https://www.psycopg.org/psycopg3/docs/basic/install.html
> Just like a motorcycle you accept the risk of being hit by a bigger vehicle that also uses the road.

Hahaha. You do not see the irony at all do you?

You and a stroller have zero business being on a bike path to begin with. The solution everyone is talking about here is Roads for Cars + Bike paths + Pedestrian-only Sidewalks. The issue of having bikes near people is the same as having cars near bikes.
assuming the new one will last 2.5 years...
I followed this guide for modifying Electron apps.

https://github.com/jonmest/How-To-Tamper-With-Any-Electron-A...

Obsidian is not open source so it's minified and hard to read. But I was able to find the relevant code and just set the delay to 0.

(I'm away from computer now, I'll see if I can find the code later.)

What also helped is that all Electron apps are just Chromium so you can run the dev tools and the debugger! I think the hotkey is F12, and/or Ctrl+Shift+J.
Pedestrian bike path is a bit of an oxy moron. Bikes and e-bikes generally aren’t allowed on the sidewalk or where people are walking. I agree with that. A bike trail seems fair game. I could agree with a 20 or 25 mph speed limit for all types of bikes on a trail as well.
A colorimeter could be used to calibrate a screen's colors, including a TV. I'm not aware of such a device for touchscreens though. The touchscreens I replaced via iFixit were each good enough replacements. But to be fair: I never did drawing on them.

Regarding the issue, I find it pretty simple to address: I believe Apple should allow third party repair shops to achieve such, and if they're unwilling or unable to, they should by law be forced to do it themselves for free, with S&H on them, too.
“Hey just buy this thing from me, and trust me that I will do something great with your money and eventually return it to you, I promise!”

Sounds like SBF talking about "the box" on the Odd Lots podcast..
As the purpose of Presidential pardons is to provide the opportunity to right significant miscarriages of justice in system that is almost impossible to get perfect, and that is the way they were typically used, it does not seem crazy that they exist.

What IS crazy is that they exist with very little consideration of a corrupt POTUS, judiciary, and/or congress. Seems the writings of the founders did worry about that significantly in later years, but evidently not in time to enshrine many guardrails in the US Constitution, not even a clear prohibition against self-pardon. Seems such a thing was considered so obviously wrong and corrupt that it didn't need to be mentioned. so here we are two and a half centuries later with people arguing that it should be possible.
Fleek Network Releases New Whitepaper for Decentralized Edge Platform
This kind of load distribution is important but please, let’s not redefine the term “edge”. TCP/IP was specifically designed with the devices at the edge to function as peers. Computing on the edge means, say, doing the computing in your phone or laptop or iot frob.

This is longstanding use and to pollute a useful technical term just leads to unnecessary confusion.
"attempt to have the process replicated and buy options on the outcome once they confirm their findings in"

This is called insider trading in stock markets and illegal. So your analogy breaks.
Unfortunately how long will it be before the guilty companies, who won't fix their dumping problem, realise they need to offload an even higher capacity into a clean river which is now coping well? Helpfully there's now a nearby tributary allowing a shorter pipe...
IANAL, but copying this table in the way they did seems OK under US copyright law.

In the US, some compilations cannot be copyrighted and some can.

Before a Supreme Court decision called Feist, copyright could be based on either "sweat of the brow" or creativity or both. Sweat of the brow is the work of taking data from original sources and putting it together. Creativity is something you add, like choosing what to include. (If I make a mere list of all restaurants at Disneyworld, that's sweat of the brow. If I make a list of the restaurants that are worth visiting, that's creative.)

The Supreme Court decision was about one company copying another company's white pages phone book. (White pages are the simple name/number listings.) The court said sweat of the brow isn't enough. There must be some amount of creativity. It's a low bar, but it has to be there. So they said the white pages cannot be copyrighted, and copying the entire thing is allowed.

About these LK-99 tables, the "Notes" and "Reliability of Claim" columns of the original table look creative to me. So I'd guess the table can be copyrighted. But the copy of the table didn't include those columns. It just included the factual data, and I think that's allowed.

Sources:

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_in_compilation

(2) https://www.copyright.gov/reports/db4.pdf (Sections IA and IB give the basic idea.)
Yeah, I'm going to say "no" in response to your "no", sorry.

For one, I've seen plenty of non-motorized bikes go over 20mph in bikes lanes, particularly down hills.

> zooming by me and my infant in a stroller at speeds that are too dangerous to be on paths

To be clear: you and your infant are not sharing the path with this bike, right? It's on a bike path, you're on a pedestrian path. I don't understand what a "pedestrian bike path" is. If a car drives past the sidewalk at 25mph do you have a similar reaction? If not, why not?

And just so we don't get too many "won't somebody please think of the children!" accusations thrown around: I own a cargo e-bike and I take my kids to school on it every day, via a separated bike path. If I were required to bike on the road instead I simply wouldn't do it, it's far too dangerous. So we'd probably end up having to get a car and if, heaven forbid, I were to get in any kind of an accident a pedestrian would be considerably worse off.

EDIT: From the replies I can see many cities do have shared paths so I take that back. Seems like a very unwise choice and goes back to the original point: 90+% of of road space being dedicated to cars is the core problem, not bikers. And plenty of non-motorized bikers travel at unsafe speeds so I maintain a blanket ban on e-bikes feels like it isn't coming from anywhere logical.
> You only buy new when the old one breaks down right?
In my experience it's half and half. Sometimes people have a nice old reliable fridge that just looks ugly and dated to their tastes, so they upgrade. Same with older energy inefficient fridges.
I've purchased two fridges in my life.

I've had one fridge fail on me in my life. The compressor (I think) failed and no longer cooled the fridge. The difference in replacing the compressor or getting a new fridge was negligible.

Other than that, I've only changed fridges when I moved. The house we bought didn't come with a fridge, so we had to buy one.
OXO Good Grips GreenSaver Produce Keeper is a pretty good lil product.
Question is always: what's externalized and what isn't?

Grid storage, required if you want to ensure your energy source is renewable, is usually not taken into account. Sure, diesel and commercial hydrogen isn't either, and an energy reduction even if not renewable is still great, but I'd be keen on knowing the number when taking it into account. That's the end goal after all.
It's unnecessary indeed to not use Ipv6 addresses, 2^128 addresses and the many many features it offers like unicast etc. Ipv6 makes a server as a middlemen for some applications (Ipv4 only) completely obsolete.

But a big problem is that there is still no Ipv6 auto configuration at all on a lot of devices (e.g. no default gateway or no global address configured). Especially android devices and from experience also on Windows. Linux depends on the distro. Changing routing settings on android devices from Ipv4 to Ipv6 does often not work or is not offered by the ISP strangely.

And there are other problems like routers having enabled incoming and outgoing Ipv6 connections by default, which is good, but having router advertisements blocked by default, which is bad. Since there is no way for the OS to get the prefix to construct global addresses automatically. Most users today have little to no knowledge about networking and computers in general. So auto configuration is a must.

That leads to Ipv6 only servers being not reachable and thus the buying of Ipv4 addresses makes a lot of sense at this point.
> you can still buy high-end fridges or first class tickets if you are willing to spend the same amount

Can you, though?

Or has the maker of that high-end $1500 fridge been brought out by the maker of $500 fridges? Are the two brands made in the same factory, to the same quality standards, while the owners laugh at those chumps who are paying 3x the price just to have a different sticker on the front?

I've brought high-end white goods in the past and found the performance unimpressive. In my case, a high-end washing machine with poor rinse performance.
There's also Coordinate Descent which was traditionally used for fitting LASSO regression.
I didn’t know AirBnB could be used to book hotels, but yes resort fees are a scam. The recent AG settlement with Marriott is a complete joke and accomplished nothing of value.

Ideally banks would identify it as fraud and charge them all back automatically but they rely on co-branded credit cards (especially Chase and AMEX).

Perhaps Discover and Citibank would like to start a hilarious proxy war using Marriott, Hilton and IHG as pawns?
In this case, Louis Slotin was the safety mechanism. Different times…

I’m currently reading Command and Control which dives into nuclear safety and more interestingly, accidents. I recommend it: https://books.google.com/books/about/Command_and_Control.htm...
RationalWiki tries to get people cancelled, unemployed, destroy their career prospects and perhaps ruin their lives. All the while they hypocritically and cowardly hide between their anonymity. It is disgusting.
My opinion as well unless we're talking their "Blonde Roast", which is somehow decent despite Starbucks' apparent burnt-flavor bias.

I think the reason Starbucks stays afloat is not their coffee, but their 900 calorie "coffee drinks", which they market such that people can pretend to be coffee snobs while drinking what are essentially milkshakes.
Re: "useless searches": my point in the comment above was that this is what Notational Velocity does--instantly updates search list on every keystroke--and it's the reason I like it significantly more than anything else I've tried.
I definitely wonder, the build is quite slim, I don't think the tech inside is that impressive.
It's been travelling the width of the earth every 14 minutes for the last 47 years.

To reach the point 2 degrees from earth would take 1.64 years at that speed.

To reach that point before October 15th it would need to travel about 9x faster than falcon 9 second stage or almost twice as fast as the fastest spacecraft in history.

But it would need significant additional time and fuel to slow down such that it didn't immediately blow past that point and become useless, so it would need an even higher speed.
> interesting back story investigation

No! As stated in their reply to this, you should assume that everything that account writes is fiction.

They said that they were essentially trying to write a The Big Short-style screenplay in real time as the story unfolds. To do that, they link to actual newsworthy tweets and "fill it in with realistic stereotypes".

It's a shame that this account is one of the most responsive aggregators of new developments, as I find their real-time fictionalization incredibly irresponsible.
Car industry hit-piece. They did it before, they'll do ti again.

Remember "jay-waking"?
Besides being power hungry and small, these fridges also had mechanical latches, which trapped and killed dozens of children per year.
They do that already, and it results in ghosting and leftover artifacts.

It's all tradeoffs, improving one number only to a limited extent and only at the expense of other numbers. Ie, faster action at the expense of worse image. No free lunch or getting around it by handwaving 'advancement'.
Airbnb users: Is there ever a scenario where it makes sense to book a hotel room using Airbnb?

(Not blaming the customer, and I completely agree that a "total price display" that leaves out fees that Airbnb knows about is predatory.)
Q: Where is the electricity coming from to recharge the batteries?

"Powered by electricity" doesn't necessarily mean "clean", years ago I visited friends in Germany who were within cycling distance of an open-cast lignite mine. It had its own (lignite-fueled) power station on-site, which powered much of the equipment.

Will never forget climbing steps up the earthen embankment at the edge of the mine to reach a viewing platform. The scale of the destruction was literally breathtaking.
Isn't it sufficient to have another lab confirm that the existing sample is a super conductor? Then we can all sprint to replication.