skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found that, for mobile screens, the most valuable refinement real estate is often the top row of the results. Since that space is very limited, there's only room for the most useful facets or filters. And you have to decide whether to show keys or values, e.g., "Brand" as a key or "Nike", "Adidas", etc. as values. Showing keys takes up less space and allows you to cover more ground, but showing values may be more useful -- and certainly more discoverable -- to the user, since there's one less step. As with all things, it's a tradeoff, and I don't think there's been that much research on optimizing it.
So is beer in bags, or so I hear.
> did that restrict their ability to prevent Taiwan and Korea from stealing their economic thunder?

which is a question framed from a zero-sum game.

The world isn't zero sum. The idea is that the "stolen" economic opportunities would've been there for the japanese had it not been "stolen" is wrong. It's like saying that a pirated piece of music is a stolen sale.

The fact is, japan's output didn't drop - the new asian tiger economy of south korea and taiwan caught up. The world is richer because of it, even if the japanese didn't get to own a share of that wealth directly, they can benefit indirectly.

I suppose china learnt the wrong lesson from this perspective observing japan. They do wish to prevent anyone else from stealing their thunder, and they are taking action right now for this purpose. And it is this very action that's causing the tension in asian pacific.

Imagine if in an alternative world, the US did not invite china into the WTO, and worked to integrate them into global trade? If the US had held such a belief that the world was zero sum, china would not have had the opportunity to get foreign investment and become the manufacturing powerhouse it currently is today.

And yet china cannot see how folly their current behaviour is, and insist on pursuing a geopolitical agenda that involve expansionism and coercion of their neighbours, rather than tight economic cooperation and integration.
You're proposing a false dilemma because there's a third option: make some of it ISM. Today, way more hacking, tinkering and experimenting happens on ISM bands than on HAM bands. I've written about this before so won't spam the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36714225
This is simply a digitized for of what was centuries, even millenia, of worship to "important people". athletes, celebrities, rulers, tycoons, etc. The only difference is that the internet lets you form very small, very local parasocial relationships now. What had to be boosted by cable TV or radio decades before can be some tiny "channel" with 20 members directly talking to the "celebrity".
Some more info https://www.rafael.co.il/worlds/land/iron-beam/ and a promo video https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=30&v=RF6eHC4JBXA

They have been testing it at a lot at the beginning of the last year. I don’t see it on the official website, wikipedia claims the range to be 7.5km, I heard 10km somewhere earlier. So it’s an addition to Iron Dome, for which range under 10km become challenging. The cost of an intercept is allegedly under $100, which is very impressive. The entire project cost 1B ILS, roughly 260M USD and was done by a government owned company. They already presented a naval version. It’s very impressive.
Thanks for sharing this. There are some parts of life that are so hard yet little talked about.
The point of the tooling is that you describe what you want your deploy to look like, and it updates the deploy to match the description. If you delete something from the description and it stays running, that would be very confusing.
The price difference gets even bigger with smaller amounts in Estonia:

1l carton €1.15

1l plastic bag: €0.79

This is the same milk from the same producer from the same store. On a shelf these two products will be next to each other.

Same store also sells a €0.59/l milk in plastic bags that basically tastes identical. (They probably buy it from the same place the others do.)

So if you're shopping cheap you can pick the €0.59/l or €1.15/l milk here.
> "so much that milk and related products seem to be their only relatively widespread use"
Six AI Themes to Consider (August 2023 Newsletter)
I think they are saying they manually tested what they thought the automated process was doing, then found out their assumption about what it was doing was wrong. So the manual tests were moot.
Leased Linux box, running a somewhat obsolete service:

Server status at 2023-08-27 21:00:32
System status: Database up for 2020.83 days.
Typical Scrum apologist who describes how someone else must have screwed up Scrum or Agile. They then claim that pure "Scrum" or "Agile" has never been implemented anywhere.

If only people weren't so ignorant, we could give pure Scrum a try and solve all the world's problems.
Startup extinction season: a bloodbath soon for the 50k VC-backed startups
I use reverse osmosis well water, all stainless steel cooking utensils, buy my meat from a farm and only buy fresh veggies. I only drink out of glass and use glass containers for storage. That’s about as much as I can handle and I think that covers all major sources.
I'm pretty sure they make most of their money from TeamCity build agents.

IntelliJ (the Java+ IDE) always has a community edition that is open source. I can vouch that it is truly free and not crippleware. For most Java programmer, this edition is sufficient.
Bicycle instead of drive if you can.
> While manual backup and restore tests were run once a month to ensure our backups were functioning, they were run manually. After digging into why our restores were not coming up with data, I found that our recurring backups were missing the flag to run volume backups with Restic which snapshots PVC block volume data.

Can someone explain this? How did they test restores, if the actual restore failed to come up with data?
Why would you hate spending 1 month out of 4 for “planning” and then 40% of the time in the remaining 3 months also for “planning” resulting in a massive destruction of productivity all so you can now claim that “yeah, you delivered a fraction of what the company was delivering pre SAFE, but at least we planned on delivering a fraction of what we delivered Pre-SAFE.”
I live in Ontario. I pay $4.49 for 4L of fine-filtered 1% milk in bags. That's 52% of the price you would pay for 2 of those 2L boxes.
> manual restore testing

They didn't test restores of the actual data being backed up. They did a manual restore test of data that they manually backed up.
Thanks for reminding me of reading busybox's source code. You can learn a lot from learning how bash utils implemented, but it's really a headache to understand which tools from which package/git repo, busybox is a good enough and battle-tested collection for all of this.
Was the meter based on the length of the pendulum similar to the length of the meter today? This doesn't necessarily say they were similar:

> In 1675, Tito Livio Burattini suggested the term metre for a unit of length based on a pendulum length, but then it was discovered that the length of a seconds pendulum varies from place to place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre#Pendulum_or_meridian
When I was a young kid, I was obsessed with Japan. Well, I suppose I'm still a weeb to this day. But my point is, I would have had a conniption fit if bag milk showed up in my cafeteria lunch lol.
https://archive.is/SJ9zf
While the acquisition was good for me financially, I agree that Oracle didn't really invest in sustaining Endeca as a product. I am proud of what we achieved at Endeca, but search has come a long way since then.

Coincidentally, I now consult for Algolia. :-)
Make your site fast enough, you don't need loading.
They have their good name.
Yeah, fraternity members have drunken toga parties. Shivers

I wasn't aware it was novelized, though. Only saw the film.
There's a "wiper" style interface on the page at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5142 that contains all six of the comparisons.
This is a dumb question, but why can't people just make things simpler? Tools are supposed to make work easier and make things more efficient, but this sort of complexity just seems to hurt, doesn't it?
I wouldn’t be so fast to downvote this. There is strong evidence that willpower is sometimes not enough, and if we have to provide a drug like we would for a brain chemistry or other chemical imbalance, we shouldn’t turn away from an appetite suppressant to solve for this. We simply need to drive the price down to make it less costly than all of the healthcare currently going into second order effects of broad population obesity.

That’ll help you look good with your clothes on. Gotta lift those heavy weights if you want to look good with your clothes off though.
Senior citizens can’t acclimatize to 40c heat. Hundreds died during the Heat Dome event in BC in 2021.
Mac laptop and my phone.

The idea behind Tailscale is that you can sign in with any device. I can go and create a configuration file for WG, but then it gets longer and longer.
What were the shenanigans? I'm not familiar.
Came here to say this. It follows that light is ≈1 million times the speed of sound.
I don’t care what technology power the carbon capture. My point is that Norwegians should identify that the entire reason for their current financial situation is due to their hydrocarbon extractions. They have a massive wealth fund, which they could use to kickstart the carbon capture economy, and yet they don’t. They would rather point to other countries as the problem, as opposed to admit that they’re a major cause, and should be channeling their wealth to solve it. If they simply held a contest each year for new carbon capture technologies, and invested 10% of the wealth fund’s yearly earnings into whatever the best of breed technology is, they’d make an enormous dent in the problem.
The cost of having a thorough inventory of apps that being in monetization is vending apps that have none. It's part and parcel of keeping users inside the walled garden.

Google takes a hit on some apps to sell and advertise with others. What's hurting Google in this case is the release of an app update that is bad for customers and bad for the business. While it's just one papercut, the "huh, my iPhone version works just fine" razzing will ring just a bit more true for customers who got bit by the update. Do it enough, and they'll get tired of the hassle and jump.

It's a rough balance, building something scalable that also holds high quality, and separate policy decisions can sometimes lead to truly Kafkaesque journeys for developers and users. It's at least instructive for others. Making and evolving APIs and ecosystems is hard. Think very carefully about the holistic impacts of decisions.
_someone_ “else” :)
> Remove all that is not true, in order to begin to apprehend the dim outlines of the truth

“ And that is why, in the fundamental approach to the Godhead, both the Hindu and the Buddhist (and, for that matter, the Taoist) take what is called the negative approach, which used to be known long ago in the Middle Ages as Apophatic theology. As Saint Thomas Aquinas said, “To proceed to the knowledge of God it is necessary to go by the way of remotion,” of saying what God is not—since God, by his immensity, exceeds every conception to which our intellect can attain.

So then, of the Godhead the Hindu says: all that can truly be said is neti neti, “not this, not this.””

~ Alan Watts

Excerpt from talk transcript (right before 19:39) https://alanwatts.org/transcripts/relevance-of-oriental-phil...
On top of that, the car requirement is in effect a gigantic tax: every person has to pay tens of thousands of dollars just to own a car, and many thousands to tens of thousands every year to operate and insure and maintain it. And that's a direct tax on every person.

Then there's the maintenance costs for all the roadways needed to support all these cars, all the parking lots to park them in, etc. All that comes out of either direct taxes on people, or an indirect tax in the form of higher prices.

Finally, this doesn't even consider the climate consequences of everyone driving around in a 6000-pound SUV; all these cars spewing emissions are turning those suburbs into very *un*comfortable locations with deadly heat waves.

But good luck getting any Americans like the OP to understand any of this.
Proposed alternative title for this paper: A study on whether large language models generate Java code that fits our extremely specific ideas of how a small collection of APIs should have their exceptions checked.
Chinese control of their economy isn't about altruistically helping everyone. A cynical perspective is that this is just more class conflict born from an Animal Farm style revolution.
>, I doubt that any of those countries would be able to lay claim to such dubious achievements as “allowing corrupt politicians to sell their people into sex slavery without fear”.

I don't know, I see India, Kenya, and Brazil on that list. It's not exactly ironclad.

Besides, all we're arguing here is what has worse PR, not who actually has the worst problems. Tier 2 criteria literally includes "making active efforts to become Tier 1".
What's the connection with Japan?

Edit: when I think of a conniption fit I think of someone being angry or upset, but maybe OP meant being excited.
and wine (but in a box), liquid soap refills, larger containers of yoghurt by some brands.
I have lived in Canada my entire life and I have not bought or used a bag of milk ever or even seen it being sold.
In Europe it's fairly common to find wine in 3L boxes. The quality varies, but the same is true for the ones you find in bottles.

Supermarkets also buy and bottle their own wines so you often find the same wine in both bottles and boxes.
Ugh I did something like this once when I wrote a script to rsync one volume to a backup volume. Everything was great until someone accidentally rm -r ‘d the source volume and the script happily deleted everything on the backup volume to keep it in sync.
Personally, I think SAFE or Agile/Scrum are good starting points.

The key part, however, is teams, departments, and companies, then modifying their actual working by eliminating ceremony and process.

The way I think Agile/Scrum/SAFE should work is that you expose all the teams to all the ceremonies, and all the different alternatives to each of the ceremonies to start with, but you also mandate thst 6 months to a year from now you should have reduced 50% of the ceremonies you started with.

The goal should be expose people the universe of options and ideas available, and then once exposed, require them to pick and choose between all these options to tailor their own customized solution which works best with the people on their team and the working styles and the kind of work they’re doing.
This generally applies to outer window borders, but not to the content area.

Interestingly, Edge doesn't apply rounded corners to its own content presentation, either, as can be seen in the screenshots provided in a page (Neowin) linked by another comment, here.

To me, it appears much so as if MS is making a serious attempt to differentiate between own and foreign content, which includes a rather surprising comeback of visually prominent frame/window borders, which are marked by round corners in this particular design language. (If this is a good thing or not is left to the beholder, but it's at least interesting.)
One of those things that I'd like to have for myself, but don't want everyone else to have. (Magic power is another, fwiw.)

I want it because I want to improve the SNR of my HN time. I'm never going to read the vast majority of what's on HN, so some imperfect degree of separation of wheat from chaff sounds great.

I don't want it because it's a push in the direction of focusing on writers rather than content, and once that ball gets rolling downhill it won't stop until it smashes the previous community to bits.

For myself, I don't worry about missing out on an insightful post here and there because the author took a cheap shot at someone in the past. I would rather not miss such posts, but I'm already missing tons of equally valuable posts because of the number of hours in the day.

Besides, I intentionally pay attention to people who make cogent points that I disagree with but cannot easily refute. I mean, I am always Right, but sometimes it's helpful to have someone who is Wrong reveal to me that i don't know why I'm right in a particular case.

I would only ding people for bad basic logic, uncharitable interpretations, or otherwise wasting my time.

...but isn't that what we all think?
The most successful companies I have worked for in my 30+ years career built most of their tools internally. It gave them a huge competitive advantage.

The worst companies I have ever worked for didn’t have the skills to do it.

So yet again it depends on the quality of your developers. Not how you do things.
For reference to these "tiers":

Tier 1- Countries whose governments fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.

Tier 2 - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards.

Tier 2 Watch List - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards, and for which:

- the estimated number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing and the country is not taking proportional concrete actions; or
- there is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year, including increased investigations, prosecutions, and convictions of trafficking crimes, increased assistance to victims, and decreasing evidence of complicity in severe forms of trafficking by government officials.

Tier 3 - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so.
Regarding alcoholics.... what made you come to the conclusion they drink a lot of milk? Rather odd statement lol
The pyramids are pretty old.
Bypassing Bitlocker with a Logic Analzyer
What a brave man to write this piece. Amazing strength.

The persistent intrusive thoughts about whether this thing, life, is worth it, remain. They’re not questions therapy can help with. They’re questions intrinsic to the damage.

This sucks but I wonder if it’s nature way of making the end easier? At some point one must reason that eternal rest is a better option ?
It is a good question but the answer may be unsatisfactory: it depends. I think that the popularity of scrum is due to its catch-all nature and the way it sounds reasonable when you explain it to someone, especially a non-developer.

Here is an answer that (I believe) works well: Hire a team lead that is willing to shield a small dev team (less than about 7 people) from the politics above. The devs still talk to users and other people in the company but they do not necessarily have to be accountable to them. The team lead understands the company’s budget cycles, has a vision for the product being developed and, importantly, has the time to sit down with each developer on the team to look at what they are making. Not a code review but a regular show-and-tell kind of arrangement. The fine line in this approach is to make sure it doesn’t degrade to micromanagement and ego poking.
> As a side question, is your objective to ‘win’ the argument, or be correct? To me, it sounds like the former.

My objective here is to get to the truth - nothing more and nothing less. Unions can be "every bit harmful" since they are a power structure and power corrupts. Unrestrained, unfettered, corrupt unions can do more harm than good. They are not a cure all remedy for all problems a modern "evil" corporation might have [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBudiVNsW2E
I think ASi Macs also use swap by default now, because the SSDs are so fast that it's actually a tenable solution to memory pressure. My Intel Mac never had any swap.

> IIRC Windows doesn't like to overcommit memory and its allocation calls will actually fail instead

Yeah... one of the reasons why I dislike it.
Wordiness is inefficiency but some things are better left unoptimized.
SNAP I just realized I linked to reservoir dogs instead of reservation dogs like an absolute dummy. Here’s Reservation Dogs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_Dogs
> despite being the first […]

This is false

> […] and most popular vector database

Based on what?
Bear in mind you'd be linking to (apparently) the first place you became aware of a thought that literally dates back as far as sheperd | flock metaphors in any book of the bible.
> by overwriting the sticky keys app (sethc.exe) with cmd.exe, you can get to a command prompt just by banging the shift key five times.

I'm suprised this still works. I thought Windows would do some checking on those accessibility programs before running them by now.
To add to your list: During string concatenation, there is no automatic conversion to string. It results in an exception. It is infuriating.

This code:

"abc" + 123

... will raise this exception:

TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str

I have wasted so many hours fixing this same bug, over and over again.
I'll second this. I downvoted the comment not because of a strong disagreement to its main thesis, but rather the aggressiveness and that it brings oversimplification to the matter rather than incorporating more nuance in the discussion. I just detest those that lump everything together as if we can compartmentalize things into neat little boxes rather than acknowledging the messiness and complexity that is the world we live in.

I often downvote people I agree with who similarly oversimplify. Interestingly this can sometimes lead to fights as any response is often taken as opposition. But I similarly often upvote points I disagree with, when I find the arguments are good and bring up points I was missing. These actually tend to turn into the best conversations and are a main part of what keeps me coming to this website.

People vote for many different reasons. A vote is an aggregate of many different metrics. It's likely unsurprising that this leads to misinterpretation of the metric.
Yep, apartments in Tokyo are getting bigger. Decades ago, a tiny little apartment with no toilet or bath was not uncommon: all the residents of a building shared a couple of toilets, and had to go to a public bath down the street. These days, there's no such thing as a modern apartment without these conveniences.

The one-bedrooms LDKs are available in larger sizes now, and the 3-4BR LDKs are getting quite large.

Near me, they've torn down several 50-year-old 5-story apartment buildings and are replacing them with bigger 13-story buildings.
That sucks. Everyone has been there. On my first sysadmin job I did an rm /* as root and then discovered my backups across the network to a remote tape unit had a buffering issue and were basically useless.
Having read the article but not heard of Evergrande prior to this, what are the implications of this outside of China? The article mentions that the company filed for bankruptcy in the US, but not what US operations/developments they had.
Yes, but it is a prohibition against unreasonable searches and the courts keep finding ways to make things look ever so much more reasonable.
Its a cartel. But, honestly, the quality of Canadian diary is one of the few things Canada has going for it. I remember first tasting sour cream in the US - yuck. I thought Id accidentally bought the light versions.

(In cheese the US regains the advantage though - Quebec cheese is decent , but doesn't hold a candle to European cheeses that are available in US grocery stores for much lower prices)