skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to use Pidgin and as for the why: I had used Pidgin for many years to AIM, MSN, etc.
Barring something going horribly wrong, even the cheapest of cheap household appliances will last that, and more. Most major retailers offer longer retailer warranties than that. And, for an absolute bottom of the feature set appliance, a repair shop still exists
> 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.

One of the difficulties is it's become very hard to know if an item is more expensive because:

- it's better quality

- it's full of bullshit

- it's marketing

However 3-5k for a fridge is well into "professional kitchen commercial refrigerator / refrigerated cabinet" range. At that price you can get a triple glass-door adjustable shelves wheeled model e.g. https://www.saro-kitchenequipment.com/refrigerators-commerci...
Absolutely. They cross over all the time and there is way too much going on to always be aware of your surroundings.
this is true but the build quality of the appliances today are unquestionably worse, I as a side job in my youth did a lot of appliance maint/repair. And now working on my modern high end appliances it just makes me sad. plastic gearing, metal housing with so little ferrous metal magnets have trouble sticking to them. compressors made of such thin material its a wonder they ever survive the pressure they are under for 10 years.

Washing machines whose outer clading is the only thing that holds it together, so they strongly flex as they run, wearing the barrings and belts out.

the water sensing tech that is required by law is built with so many easy to fail parts that it probably has caused more waste than has ever saved water.
It's iterative vs. up-front design. Or agile vs. waterfall. Designers shouldn't be doing iterative development when the supply chain works best with up-front design. They might be forced to because of how the business operates though. Iterative design and quicker product releases are a quicker feedback loop for the business.

Most companies don't do grand designs or long-standing flagship products meant to be advertised for years, but that may actually be on the consumer by constantly choosing the new thing. I don't think any car manufacturer has left a car design completely unchanged for longer than 10 years, for instance. Same for computer or laptop manufacturers.
I'll recycle a comment I made in another thread a few years ago:

When clearing out my grandmother's house a few years ago, my uncle and I almost broke our backs trying to get the freezer out. It felt like it weighed a ton, even empty.

My grandmother told us it had been a wedding present, and that they had been totally awestruck at the time at the generous present from her parents-in-law.

After all, a decent freezer cost at least 2,000 kroner! (At this time, the average yearly gross pay was just in excess of 7,000 kroner.)

My grandparents married in 1950. Since then, monetary value has been reduced twenty-fold.
You can still buy a top-loading freezer for 2,000 kroner; I just checked.

So - in 1950, you had to work for five months to earn money for a freezer (after taxes.)

In 2023, I have to work five hours for a freezer (after taxes.)

(2,000kr is slightly less than US$200)
> people don't because they care more about spending less on a fridge

I don't think so. First of all, there are lots of quality improvements that could make life longer, at almost zero additional cost per unit. Also, repairability could be improved.

Second, there is an ecconomic problem with information asymetry - while I know the pricetag, I have no idea what the life expectancy is. So you get https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons ; that's not the customer's preference.

The latter could be possible to fix if we mandated producers to publish "expected usage per lifetime" (MTBF) numbers and also show price/usage ratio to customers.
Not from my experience. I’ve found the inverse to be true with the likes of booking.com now having some apartments.

Booking isn’t perfect but it is definitely my go to for travel accommodations. Their customer service is always helpful and easy to get in contact with from anywhere I have traveled to.
I think it's what happens when you just stack all of your character points in intelligence.

Smartest person I ever met is now some kind of non-binary fox person. An ivy league masters in math, does risk modeling for some mega insurance company, and lives in a kawaii fever dream while doing it.
How can I buy a small number of IP addresses?
Refrigerators might be a bad example because we got rid of highly effective refrigerants on purpose to patch a hole in the ozone layer.

Or perhaps more accurately, to stop poking a giant hole in the ozone layer.
I'll definitely give it a short this weekend. Are there any plans to support different authentication methods? Like LDAP, OAuth2 etc?

I'm using linkding at the moment https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding which also has a browser addon, the only missing thing is some form central user auth but we're using it as it is.
> "Powered by electricity" doesn't necessarily mean "clean"

"Powered by electricity" is an abstraction that lets you move towards clean sources of energy over time and zero emissions. Even if the source of that electricity is dirty today and shifts emissions, it can become clean and zero emission.

On the other hand "Powered by gasoline" or "Powered by diesel" will always be dirty, even with bio-diesel.
Are there any use cases where i should prefer FreeBSD over Linux?
AFAIK, nope. If that was the case there would be no point in buying anyone's account. If you stored value in it they could always use their iris to get into it.
I'm not going to defend insane moped drivers because they're awful but you know why they're in the bike lanes in the first place? Because the roads are too dangerous.

> Drivers will behave like oblivious idiots, but they are predictable idiots.

I wish I shared that optimism (if you can even call it that). NYC drivers are, in my experience, a deeply unpredictable bunch. Running red lights, wild U turns, excessive speeding, it's all a flip of a coin whether someone is going to do any of it right in front or behind you.
The Pebble wasn't e-ink, it used a transflective memory LCD which they branded as "e-paper". Garmin still makes smartwatches using that technology.
Not that I refuse it when having a Mcbreakfast on the road, but there's this weird taste of ashtray in McDonald's coffee.
It's not quite philosophy, but I'm a fan of Wendy Doniger's work
Sounds like you made all the right choices. You spent $200k on a degree which awarded you a job that allowed you (with some expected struggle) to pay it off. Congratulations.
Just two degrees off? Can they not wiggle the antenna a bit around [1] just as in the old days when you had to hold the TV antenna a bit above the TV to see anything but noise?

[1] Joking aside, they obviously can not, Voyager is missing the Earth by 4.5 AE. How wide is the beam, how precisely do they have to aim the antenna to maintain communication?
I run quite a few small production aws accounts for clients and this is a big increase to their bill. If you use a lot of t4g.nano instances, the IPs are more than the machines. I think the large customers that are 99% of the revenue won't care, but the bottom 50% of customers will notice.
Google.org donated money and staffing to support the Abstract Wikipedia project. Two of the seven Google.org fellows who were supporting the Abstract Wikipedia team are permanently based in Zurich[1], and Google was able to provide space to meet. It was the most practical place to hold an off-site.

[1]: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/04/14/google-org-fellowship-with-abstract-wikipedia-and-wikifunctions/
And the feature is: "still operational after decades"

Built like a tank. Imagine Indiana Jones getting onto a fridge from now and try to survive a nuclear blast.
whoa! really APIGW and lambda are not ipv6 compatible ?

i was planning to deploy an internal developer platform (think local PAAS) using lambdas behind an api gateway. no ipv6 there ?
> even though they take more time to dry due to colder house temperatures.

However when it is very cold the air is much drier. Contrast that to a temperate but humid climate where everything sits at 20C - 25C w/80% - 100% humidity. Practically a microbial incubator.
If we talk about the US native Fisher, this is a cat sized carnivore related with weasels, not a rodent.

Not particularly destructive or constructive, apart of its common environmental services as predator.
Indeed. Keir Starmer's Labour is hardly any opposition at all.
I haven't been able to visit a site with Cloudflare's bot protection for over a year because it goes into an infinite loop on Firefox.
Previous recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36872955

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36902533
I guess I'm missing something. I can "wheelie" the front wheel of my recumbent up a curb. Stomp the pedal while leaning back and it hops up.

Very few people have the stamina to stand on the pedals for more than a short hill. A friend and I rode a recumbent and a regular touring bike from Oregon to San Francisco with camping gear in panniers. We would switch bikes and I don't remember either being particularly worse or better when climbing inland to campsites. When we got to San Francisco we used a bike path map to find and ride all the 25+ % gradient streets and alleys.

For a short hill any upright will be faster. Longer hills, equal weight (recumbents are usually heavier) and the answer becomes "meh."
That begs the question: What's more tragic, a preventable or an unpreventable accident?
We have a Stripe-based store and I "integrated" PayPal by simply sending users to "paypal.me/<username>/<price>" after checkout because I didn't want to deal with PayPal's full integration with webhooks and stuff. Unfortunately it is very popular. Users love PayPal. I will probably need to do a proper integration eventually.
> It took almost a century before we figured out how photo negatives worked chemically. Didn’t stop anyone from taking photographs though.

That argument is a strawman as it works with anything that can't be falsiefied.

People who believe in astrology/chakras/etc. will also frequently tell you science will "one day" discover that "it's true". "We're just not there yet."

Also consider what someone may say in a hundered years:

It took almost a century before we figured out that psychotherapy didn't work. Didn’t stop anyone from taking pshychotherapy though. ;)
Possibly because you want very responsive temperature control, if the oven has a lot of insulation it's more efficient but it responds much more slowly to temperature decreases.
> In short, it was remote bricked, by giving it commands to rotate a bit.
> But luckily it automatically readjust itself to earth automatically every half year exactly for these events.

I remember when bricking something meant it was totally unrecoverable. Now it means "temporarily not working but will automatically heal".
Why should drivers have first place?

NYC is a city. It has 8 million people. There is no room for private cars.

Where is the moped lane? Why is there only one bike lane? Every avenue should have two full-sized bike lanes (the same size as car lanes), one for each direction. Then a bus lane, and no car lanes.

If that doesn't happen, you can't blame bikers for riding on sidewalks or the wrong way in a one-way bike lane. You can't expect someone on a bike to cross to a different avenue just because they want to go the other way. It's the city's fault for failing to provide proper infrastructure.
I've lived in a few cities over the past two years, and am currently in NYC and you're right on the money. E-bikes are a very positive change in every other city. E-bikes in NYC have gone too far. I was riding the bus to Red Hook and the driver had to slow down several times because delivery riders were swerving between the sidewalk, road, and bike path at any given many moment. Stop signs didn't even exist to them.
The shortest answer is "a system with strong pro-consumer regulations where you can't buy people and laws legally and illegally".

This idea proved to be a nice one, but unfortunately it includes humans.

In a more broader sense, we needs checks and balances. A better version of this idea is a "bigger government", where government not only regulates, but builds the baseline products which pushes other companies to compete to build better goods.

But this generates tons of brouhaha. It's called "communism", "non-free markets", "government intervention", etc.

In reality, private companies hate and despise real competition, because a corporation is (or has become) an establishment for generating shareholder value, not make customers happy beyond the level required to keep the company afloat.
To keep the bugs off of them. I know in theory you're supposed to keep tomatoes out, but they attract fruit flies.
> subtractive solutions and don’t “grow the GDP” like brand new EVs

Maybe GDP is a bad metric. In any other field, a metric this naïve would be laughed out the door.

If GDP is trying to capture net effective productivity, then let's stop using a metric that's 2 degrees of aggregated abstraction away from this metric of interest.

Cars are middlemen. They allow labor to reach a location that performs a productive activity. They produce no productivity of their own. IE. Cars are network IO. Whichever transport method maximizes throughput and minimizes latency for the least cost is ideal.

Any decent engineer knows that the key to better network IO is to:

* improve locality - (keep things near each other)

* batch things together - (buses and trains)

* reduce size of individual packets - (cycles instead of huge cars)

* no lossy transmission - (maintain worker productivity, stave off obesity)

* avoid waits as much as possible, let actions happen async (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqQSwQLDIK8)
> Now, my Bosch dishwasher has been solid. No issues.

Seconded, and also confirmed by an appliance repair tech when I asked him about his opinion of the reliability of our various kitchen appliances.
I think that ship has sailed. “Edge computing” is a well established phrase at this point. When I need to refer to the scenario you’re describing I usually say “local computation”.
LiteFS author here. I think single-node deployments are great and it's a model that fits many (or even most) apps out there. However, the two most common feature requests when I was developing Litestream were HA & replication. While most apps won't need those features, it's good to have it available as an option down the road. I've seen many devs choose Postgres or MySQL over SQLite simply because they didn't have these features. Once those are solved, edge computing is really more of a nice side effect.

I think it's also useful to consider that tools like LiteFS aren't just for your main database. We have several internal tools at Fly.io that fan out their data to other internal apps to consume so they can share data without having to build an API or worry about rate limiting.
Thanks for the comment about Windows. I get to live in a world that's Linux-based, and it's wonderful.
We love Observable, but Decipad is made for a different audience and use cases.

We are focusing on numbers and collaboration, while Observable kind of focuses on the programmers and the DataViz community.
The Decipad user shouldn't have to know how to program.
Observable uses JS. Decipad created a custom language with a number of specific features, like the way we handle units, dates and dimensions.
(We can also use JS if you want to).

We have and plan to creating custom widgets for specific use cases for financial and quantitive modelling and analysis.
LaTeX3: Programming in LaTeX with Ease (2020)
I was using wolfi for an oss project, but the recent attempts at forcing payments when pinning version was a huge red flag, as was the messaging around it, and I’ll be migrating away from it.

https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/scaling-chainguard-imag...

Pinning a language version (say python 3.11) isn’t an optional thing its a best practice, and the notion that its because of security seems intentionally misleading as the images should be refreshed in place on the tag along with signatures.
Why not? In this case they successfully diverted a customer from booking an Airbnb at the cost of whatever fee they paid to Airbnb. Hotels being directly bookable or bookable through other travel systems is a core feature of the hotel business model.
How are betting markets a scam? They are remarkably useful, you can watch the LK-99 market now and you will know immediately as new information arrives.
I wish states would regulate Class 2+ e-bikes as motor vehicles restricted to motorways only. E-bikes with throttles (instead of just pedal assist) are just motorcycles with electric motors and should be regulated accordingly. They have no business being on trails and sidewalks.
Whoa looks nice. Assembly-like programming games (like TIS-100) is always interesting for me.

https://github.com/jaredkrinke/sic1/tree/master/sic1

Wonder if this can be easily built on Mac...
I have tried that before, only resulting in a truck aggressively trying to pass me and finally pushing me off onto the sidewalk in the middle of downtown Mountain View.

Legality doesn't matter if the drivers who think they own the streets don't know the law or aren't willing to abide by it.
Join RIPE and you may get a /24 allocation though the wait time varies

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Very interesting. Makes me imagine a battery swapping station for a huge mining truck. Probably not feasible but I’m sure it would look awesome if it was.
Nowadays it's difficult to just pay premium and trust things to last for decades. A more likely event is that you pay premium, get more features, and the appliance breaks down if one of which breaks.
> Is it possible to launch a little cheap rocket with a transmitter just to correct Voyager's position?

Possible, maybe. Little or cheap, definitely not. Both Voyager probes relied on a unique alignment of the planets in the outer solar system that allowed them to get a series of speed boosts using gravity assists from the gas giants. If we wanted to launch a rocket anytime in the near future that would be able to catch up with Voyager 2 we'd probably have to rely on good old fashioned brute force (rocket power). But then if you want the rocket to catch up in the next thousand years it's going to need REALLY big ass rockets to catch up with Voyager... and if you want it to rendezvous with Voyager instead of just zipping past, it will need to haul more rockets all the way out to Voyager so it can slow down and match speeds (which means even bigger rockets to launch from earth, etc.).

tl;dr - space is big and the rocket equation is brutal.
E-bike and scooter riders are not “creating an awful risk for themselves”. Cars are creating that risk for them.

And I don’t get it: you say e-bike drivers “constantly run stop signs”, but then a paragraph later you say that you also often run stop signs! What should I take away from this? That we should selectively enforce traffic laws against e-bikes but not against you?
I did, there's nothing about including a citation to the original making something fair use. Although if I cite some work using its title like so

Person *et al*(2023). "The Unbearable Lightness of Tardigades", *Little Creatures*, 27, 100-110

Then even though the title is really clever and creative copying it into my citation list is still fair use.

EDIT: I guess you could argue that the absence or presence of a citation is a factor in the character of the use or the use's effect on the market value of the original with a straight face but it's very, very much not going to be either necessary or sufficient for either of those tests.
I do anecdotally find that the better ambient light causes less eye strain.
Abstract: Our rigorous dialectic treatment shows that stone, while well suited for the smashing open of certain types of nut, is not well suited for any other purpose. Advocates from the more radical fringes of the tribe who suggest stone may be employed in varied areas such as warfare or even homebuilding(?!), are herein put in their proper place.
from the article: https://superblog.supercdn.cloud/site_cuid_clcr96b0c554951pn...

> 81% of US millennials, 79% of Gen-Xers, 65% of Gen-Zers and 68% of baby boomers use PayPal in the US

If you're in a competitive market, foregoing PayPal can be an expensive choice.
Energy efficiency is a big one. You'll make back the new fridge cost in 5ish years over a 20-30 year old fridge. Depends a lot on local energy prices and if it's a garage fridge.
implicitly verifying all (including future) of somebody's devices although running through the verification process only once.

Without it, e.g. if you log into a new session, you have to verify with all your contacts before you can safely use that session for communication
Linus Torvalds: “Let's Just Disable the Stupid [AMD] FTPM Hwrnd Thing”
Whether or not this turns out to be real the whole incident has been extremely entertaining, way more than I would have expected. Replication attempts being documented in real time on Twitter and livestreamed on Twitch, news about infighting and drama among the researchers who published the paper, constant fluxations in the betting markets as new news comes out. It's been a wild ride.
Process H2 generated at point of use makes sense (e.g. for steel production), but the whole “H2 as a fuel” story is simply nonsense to keep the legacy fossil fuel companies happy.
Apple is very supportive: "let him shoot his own foot, it'll be very educational".
I used to deliver and install appliances. My experience is approximately the same as yours. About half the time the old fridge broke, the other half is for upgrades or something when the old fridge still works. Or because the easily replaceable and still working fan makes some noises sometimes. That fridge is now in my kitchen.
well theres nuance there too>

I have to train them to be on the web. Its basically a skill they will need to learn.

Amazon actually has pretty solid controls for kids based on age. Its really solid. But as my kids get into gradeschool they cant just be using an amazon firetablet. They are having to learn how to use a laptop, touchpad, typing on a keyboard. My kindergartner literally gets their own login at school. Heck its how they do some testing now (dont get me started)

They dont watch a lot of youtube now. I tend to curate shows and put them on plex for them. Or let them go ham on PBS kids which generally has good stuff. But theres a TON of crap out there, some of it really bad. Bad both as in "reinforces or actively encourages asshole behavior" but also as in "im downright trying to scare or expose a child to something way out of bounds".

So we have to filter for both. But what my eldest can handle is different from a younger kid. IE: Harry potter gives my younger kid bad dreams. But is fine for my older kid.

What i may do and install something like Zenarmor/Sensei or just go full MDM and whitelist only specific videos or something. Frankly it will likely be a combination of tools. And may just have to say no to youtube/youtubekids full stop.
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>See: Samsung fridges. A huge touchscreen and a water pump/ice maker that will fail in <5 years are standard.

They still make models that aren't like that[1]. In fact last time I bought a fridge I specifically looked for a model without those features because they're known points of failure and I don't use them.

[1] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-25-cu-ft-33-3-door-fren...
I mean they already characterized it six ways to Sunday and posted a video of it levitating.