skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The intended lesson of this article may be the "cattle, not pets" point made near the end, but I think there's another lesson hidden in it.

This is the story of literally every single large project I've done under a tight deadline in my career:

- Some non-technical department (usually sales) promises a customer something very big very soon, with no regard to how much time might actually be needed to build it. Fulfilling this promise "on time" is now your problem, Engineer.

- Months are spent frantically building said Thing, working overtime, burning out engineers, and bastardizing the previously clean codebase in the rush.

- The deadline is met, and no customer uses Thing for at least several months. Or the deadline is not met and customer waits for Thing as long as it takes, because they're not going to blow up a big contract or integrate with your competitor instead of waiting another month. They have too much invested and the deadline wasn't that important anyway. The third possibility, as it was in OP's case, is that Thing gets thrown away in its entirety due to some fateful turning of the organizational wheels.

I swear, almost as if by some karmic law of the cosmos, literally every frantic deadline turns out to be irrelevant in the end, and you should have saved your sanity and gone home at 5 every day for the last 6 months.
Not if the government keeps building new housing like this article is mentioning. There will always be supply.

Like I mentioned in another comment it’s different if the housing is being built simultaneously nationwide, like Japan, then people don’t have an option. That represents a nationwide shift in mentality where housing is no longer an investment. Cars are pretty evenly priced across the nation (within a few thousand) so people don’t have an alternative. But that’s not the case here.
Yep, it is unfair.

There is nothing that is impossible in the building process, only it takes (took) ages.

The linked video is a "final" version, there are smaller videos with more details, this one is about making the tracks, posted on hackaday:

https://hackaday.com/2022/09/16/scratch-built-rc-excavator-i...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKJZhFfZGuE

of course there are also pre-made metal parts (possibly also hand made, but needing a small lathe), but the PVC tracing, cutting and gluing looks entirely real.
Nice snarky bad-faith response. It's obviously not what I said. I hope you get better at dealing with people who threaten your sense of superiority.
Does the shortage of labor discussed imply that some class was complaining "no one wants to work anymore" during the Ur III period at the end of the third millennium BC?
In their defense: the OP's deployment of the term "payday" is sloppy when discussing a world which predates salaries, bank transfers, and indeed... weeks[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Mesopotamian_units_of_...
The best place would be to start from the ML Collective: https://mlcollective.org/

They do some fantastic research in applied and theoretical ML. Rosanne Liu is a personal hero/role model of mine, and we all have a lot from the way she has organized this group and her career in general.

I really wish I'd known about this group back when I was an undergrad and just getting into DL research.

Let me know what your interests are, I can point you in the direction of some interesting people who might consider mentoring young undergrads.

All the best!
I've been considering this, but to be honest, I don't trust myself to keep up with updates and other aspects of opsec for something that I only use for myself and would have to do consistently and reliably at nights and weekends.

That would probably be balanced out with my self-hosted instance hopefully being less of a target, but the downside there is that I might not even know that my database was compromised and it's down to my passphrase strength now.

With Bitwarden's SaaS, I'd hope that I would hear about such a compromise before too long, giving me time to rotate passwords while GPUs gnaw at my (and everybody else's) passphrase.

Additionally, there are certain opportunities for account access recovery that are much harder or impossible when self-hosting, e.g. things like a cool-down period and a warning e-mail before allowing a less-secure 2FA method.
That story doesn't check out...
In the past, this was common.

People would tell you why, and as a result, you might be able to respond with a reason, or, fix the perceived deficiency.

Now everyone is afraid of being sued, and all sorts of court cases in the last decade or two, validate that fear.

So now no one tells, and therefore, no one knows why.

And so, you never get a chance to explain, or give context, or even prove a mark against you is in error.

Sometimes, social justice solutions can backfire.
One reason costco is cheaper is because they charge for a membership. It’s not that cheaper. Honestly it’s not even cheaper if you compare against a regular supermarket and you are willing to buy a different brand then the one offered at Costco

I have never seen a rental saying where you can or can’t go with a vehicle
Cruise ships stop at different countries as well, if your gets too bad they go next door. There are a number of islands in the Caribbean that don't get much ships. The Mediterranean likewise has a number of countries to go to.

You could prevent Alaska and Norway cruises, and a bunch of others that are mostly one country, but there are lots of other countries for those ships to go to.
Rudimentary, yet clever mechanical engineering.

While watching I was comparing the entire build to 3d printing. More specifically the process knowledge gained doing this in CAD and then 3D print vs handy making parts from PVC.
> My friend with half the cells in their body male and half female would like not to be arrested if ever visiting TX and needing to take a pee.

Why would your friend be arrested for taking a pee?

Does your friend not have a birth certificate? Or does your friend's birth certificate not have an assigned sex?

In fact, I don't even see how they could arrest someone if they can't prove that someone's assigned sex is different from the bathroom they went to, given that it's not mandatory to carry your birth certificate?

I'm not saying I am in favor of this Bill (or anything else), I'm just trying to understand the situation.

Although, if I were to express my personal opinion, I think if your philosophy is to have separate male and female bathrooms (which I understand is favored by some women, due to some concerns which might or might not be legitimate), it does seem to make sense to legally assign people to one of the two types of bathroom, so that there is no legal confusion. However, in this case I think you'd also need to be able to legally change someone's assigned bathrooms, due to all the different complex issues that can arise throughout one's development, which could make someone's assigned category the wrong one, practically speaking.
the only difference is in jobs that require experience with weapon. no other advantages
My city did this last year. Absolutely hate it. Yeah the two fixed lines were underused, because they never encountered each other and were on 1 hour loops.

Curb-to-curb is actually worse. If the bus is picking up someone from the south and dropping them off north when I get out of the eastern Walmart I have no solid timeline to get to home on the west side of town.

https://www.ktvh.com/news/helena-replacing-bus-routes-in-tow...
Show HN: Xr0 – Vanilla C Made Safe with Annotations
Xr0 is a new static analyser that aims to make it possible to write vanilla C and get the same safety guarantees that are available other higher-level languages.

We've been working on Xr0 for the past couple of months and are excited to share an early prototype.

@betz47 and I are here to answer any questions.
I wish changes like this would also trigger a change in the barcode, that fundamentally by law a new unit size of the same product would be given a new number and that number would be on the receipt. If the number was tokenized like a VIN with sub strings representing volume that could be another way to catch this where the information is tied to data text rather than the physical product whose visuals can deceive when in a rushed shopping event.
From GP:

> incase of a house eating event which destroys my hard-drives

I worry about this as well. Yes, a friend's house is an option, but not everybody has friends or family in the same city, and if they're further away, updating copies is a pain.
They're also most likely to indulge in pricing shenanigans, as the article illustrates. It's not so much scrutiny as price transparency.

But I think it should apply to all larger retailers.
In the EU its mandatory everywhere.
Discussed the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37500895
> "The business logic here is >15 years old. Http compression was only in early stages then"

At least one of us is confused about history here; are you really saying that circa 2008, HTTP compression would have been considered immature or unstable?
If NASA puts their satellites in space with their new fancy UFO detectors, and they start detecting many UFOs in the absence of eye witness accounts, do you believe them? It is very dangerous to discredit human accounts and trust a process that cannot be verified.

Be skeptical of any claims that aliens are real, no matter who is making the claim.
13.x expected end of support is January 2026. 12.x expected end of support is December 2023. It's better to have two (and briefly three) supported major versions than one.

FreeBSD installs don't turn into a pumpkin at the end of support date either.
What the hell are you talking about. Before the West attacked them they were the richest country in Africa with the highest literacy rates. There are slave markets in Libya now. A state completely destroyed with nothing but chaos in its wake. If there was any justice in the world Sarkozy and a certain nobel peace prize winner president would be in jail.
Thinking about this scenario, but combined with AI voice impersonation, makes me very uncomfortable.
Horcrux would be a cool name for a database backup service
Genuine question: why all the hassle when it’s so easy to reset passwords?
3. Easy password sharing, free for 2 person organizations.
I dunno. The GIMBAL one looks a lot like 2.
In Germany while the taxes for a typical full time grocery store worker would be higher, Germany has an extraordinary amount of "mini jobber" working in grocery stores which drives down the cost. Expensive regulation is for instance the Ladenzeitgesetz which restricts a retailer to a regulated number of hours a week with very little freedom to operate the business. Stores need to close before 9, are only allowed to open Saturdays until 18:00 and are restricted to 72 hours total a week and no Sunday trading. Additionally they are subject to very stringent rules and requirements that are untypical to grocery stores in the rest of the European Union from before they can even open a store (Betriebsanlagengenehmigung).

The end result is an incredible expensive market with very little competition compared to Germany.
I have a question:Would it be possible to use a 2.4 kernel with modern drivers?

Thanks!
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37536203
I find it seriously disgusting that we have given rights to corporations so that they can sue someone over work they did in their own free time.
There's a scale where busses don't work because routes are inefficient and wait times are too long because the population is too low, but the population is large enough that some amount of public services are expected.
If you need a Web page, to protest being at the mercy some company because of dependencies out of your control... why would you gratuitously put that Web page at a Google Docs URL (which, again, you don't control)? Even three decades ago, you could pretty easily self-host this Web page and the Web form, in a way that you controlled it.

Which prompts a thought...

I'm sure there are much better reasons for dependency on a video game foundation. But -- seeing other aspects of ordinary software development practice (e.g., ridiculously unnecessary massive complexity, numerous shoddy SaaSes, and hundreds of unvetted JS or Python package dependencies casually pulled in) -- I wonder how much of the video game dependency decisions similarly have little thought put into them? Or are video game developers smarter than most other developers?
I took the end of your comment as in good humor and not a sneer. Then, as always in communication, I tried to meet you where you were, seemingly in good humor on the subject and self-aware. If I knew it'd hurt you I wouldn't have said it. My deepest apologies. You didn't deserve that, at all.
If we are talking about that story, that is 12 years ago, not 6 and relates to a different fee structure, not raising of prices. So while I agree that this is a terrible development, I'm not sure that's what we're discussing here. More specifically after 2011 there was a huge downwards pressure on the market coming from increasing competition from virtual operators with decreasing prices.
I didn't know KeePass(XC) had sync plugins, let alone eight, since I just sync the file myself as part of the same infrastructure that syncs everything else under my homedir.
I think you're reading things into the comic that I'd argue are not there:

Nowhere is Randall saying that the crowbar is the only or the most likely attack scenario to worry about.

He's simply mentioning that it's there and worth keeping in mind, especially when going overboard with other security measures not appropriate in the threat model.
Not sure that's a great solution - it implies you either have to

1. Carry around your carbon copy with you - making it not really any backup at all

2. Remember to make your carbon copy at a later time every time you create or update a password - pretty cumbersome and prone to forgetting

Plus if you have any decent number of passwords you're dealing with many pages (*2 for the carbon copy), which is also error prone. What about longer passphrases as well? I have a bunch of very long phrases I use as encryption keys and such that would be very annoying to manually write out.
It’s funny how shallow the understanding of everyday believers in religions frequently are. Whenever I read about historical Christian schisms especially really early ones during the Roman Empire, it occurs to me how so few of the modern faithful have any understanding or interest in these theological issues that caused so much bloodshed and tears.

The biggest bible thumper in Alabama probably hasn’t ever worried about if Christ was made of the same material substance as other aspects of the Trinity and if so, at what points, but that sort of thing can be geopolitical dynamite when the right elites fight over it.
This brings to mind parity files on Usenet. Large archives would be uploaded split into smaller files and a number of parity files. You could then recreate the original archive using any (for example) n-3 out of n files.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
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> Q) This isn't really in line with how horcruxes work in the harry potter universe!

> A) It's pretty close! You can't allow any one horcrux to be used to resurrect the original file (and why would you that would be useless) but you can allow two horcruxes to do it (so only off by one). Checkmate HP fans.

Well the whole point of hurcruxes is to have backup in several places. This tool to backup your backups in several places is a much better use of the name https://github.com/chrispoole643/horcrux. Checkmate jesseduffield ;)
And for people who are confident that the some compatible horcrux tool is still available.
Except the civil war started a month and a half before NATO intervention
Surely coincidence rather than collusion (ahem*), manufacturers sharing the same competitive shelf space mysteriously all prefer different units.

* see tacit collusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion
Exactly, there’s a muscle memory and a tangible quantity a package often implies. When the packaging mismatches the quantity it is misleading essentially and wasteful of resources at that point. Think about the shipping angle where packaging is wasted at that point—-basically a smaller package could be used and still allow the transport of the product.
Is this different or do they do the exact same thing?

https://github.com/paritytech/banana_split
The only problem with PVC pipe is, it's brittle. And over time, it gets more brittle.
And then there’s the public transit factor. I’m not sure how much of Tokyo is walkable by that definition unless you also factor in the subway.
It’s legal for a business to business contract in the EU
Correct; the Guardian also syndicated the original article from Reuters.
This is a super privileged opinion and wildly out of touch with the less fortunate classes of society.

Also, if you don’t commit to price comparison, how can "shrinkflation" be a problem? If you can buy whatever groceries you want anyway, just buy the ones that make you feel comfortable regarding their price policy...?
TJs only has one version of each item so I suppose it’s not super valuable to do that.
You know, you're totally correct that they're well within their right to do... something. But why? What damages could they collect? It would take far less cash to rewrite the library I made from scratch than it would to pay lawyers to write some scary letters. There's no trade secrets. It's not even a novel idea. It would be terribly expensive and embarrassing for either Box or Uber to try to juice this even if they were motivated to. Hell, I'm technically still an active contributor to one of the OSS projects Box uses and maintains—absolutely treacherous ignorance that doesn't make me lose a second of sleep.
When ppl noticed they raise prices, they swapped to shrinkflation.

When ppl notice inflation, they swap to enshitification.

When ppl notice enshitification, they will create new brands at higher price points.

And so the cycle continues.
Most substantial technological innovation is either funded by government grants or is publicly funded in some other way in the first place. It's a myth that IP laws protect innovation, they protect profits of corporations that add very little to the process on their own.
These military people are claiming other military people are lying and covering up evidence. So I guess it's a paradox, since no one in the military lies.

People aren't all that different no matter what group they join and no matter what values they espouse. Believing someone is above reproach just because they say they are is what let the Catholic Church get away with its atrocities for so long.
What you're saying is unfalsifiable.
Modernism. Infatuation with the transformative power of high technology (both the physical and bureaucratic kind). The preceding bourgeois order was held responsible for class extortion (from the perspective of the emancipating proles) and synonymous with a small minded pettiness (from the perspective of a libertarian youth). Modernism was an iconoclastic project, a submission to an engineering fetish.
Well... yes and no. I agree that's how things should be. But I have seen perfectly good backend devs flummoxed by react and front-end devs completely lost as to the subtleties of various back end components. Our organization has a few "DB subject matter experts" who have been optimizing relational db's for decades. We don't ask them to build web pages.

Specialization is a thing. Saying "everyone can do everything" is sort of like "with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow." There's some truth to it, but you quickly find corner cases which disprove the assertion is universal.
US and France made airstrikes on Libya destroying infrastructure. The "spreading democracy" line is seen as Western imperialism which spreads suffering.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/22/libya-and-the-myth-of-h...

Libya had given up their quest to obtain nuclear weapons, yet they were still destroyed by the West. North Korea can read this history, so they dig in more fiercly to prevent a similar outcome.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/30/how-the-miserable-death-of-m...
Now I understand what you are saying, and no. For a salaried employee it pretty much covers everything you do that is related to your job, with that “related to your job” being interpreted very loosely, or done with company equipment or on company time.
Why does shrinkflation exist? Are people really fooled by smaller sodas? I think that anyone who believes that doesn't actually drink soda. Anyway, that leads me to believe that there must be some other factor, like maybe some law or contract prevents them from raising prices. Or maybe supermarket shelf space cost is tied to price somehow. Makes you think.
Here's monthly CSV's from the UK Office for National Statistics: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/data...
Doesn't have barcodes though.
Not neighboring Mongols helped too.

The Song dynasty collapsed when Genghis Khan (edit: Kublai Khan) invaded China.

A similar thing happened to the Mughal Empire in the 1700s as well, when it collapsed due to Maratha, Pakhtun, and Punjabi expansion despite Bengal, Gujarat? Sindh, and Punjab Subha showing signs of proto-industrialization.

The same thing happened to the Safavid Empire roughly the same time as well.
History Under The Hammer As National Motorcycle Museum Collection Sells
Lmao it’s Oakland. In many cases you can just walk a block to the next city. That doesn’t actually prove anything.
Stop and Stop / Peapod has very aggressive bot detection (probably to prevent just this) so I doubt this would work; I tend to trip it "by accident" just browsing the site and get completely locked out until I clear my cookies.
I haven't tried it myself, but you can use AppleScript and System Events to foreground an app and send it keystrokes, find UI elements, and click things. It might be a little bit tricky because of the Electron part, but I think that will amount to inconvenience rather than blocking you outright.
It’s stated by OP in his blog post.
Do you remember why they decided to zip it instead of just relying on the compression in http?
I'm not aware of an anime adaptation, but it does sound a bit like J G Ballard's High-rise.
Libya had a nuclear weapons programme, and actively pursued development or acquisition of nuclear weapons from the 1970s until 2003 when all such work ceased.

But it never actually had nuclear weapons to the best of my knowledge.

See:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya_and_weapons_of_mass_dest...>

<https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/giving-the-bomb-revis...>
That's not a failure to take necessary risk or a problem of a too-short time horizon. Quite the opposite. And it is certainly not a tragedy of the commons situation.

At least not until you factor in government. What landowners and land speculators clearly don't fear is huge swaths of land suddenly becoming available for building. Or sharply increasing interest rates. Or mass deportations.

A market failure is more like how a CEO is often incentivized to maximize the stock price in the short run at the expense of the long-term health of the company. That is how his compensation is structured.
It’s exactly how you describe it. I also see it both ways. The gazelle is more visible, but the bull seems more like the auroch.