skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We may be an anomaly, but we have 13.5mm laminates[1] which I'd say were relatively high grade when we put them in. The product we used didn't come with stair kits so we had to do the staircase with oak stained to match. We have two full-size golden retrievers. Eight years later, the laminates look like the day we installed them -- literally. The oak is all scratched up and will take a lot of work to refinish. [2] I was apprehensive about the laminates, and I'm definitely no Captain Planet, but I'll never have anything else. *edited to add imgur link.

1. https://www.pacmatpure.com/product/calypso-collection/

2. https://imgur.com/a/9QI5bC2
Linux Mint Starts Working on Wayland for Cinnamon, Likely Not Ready Until 2026
I said that they're fine -- which they are -- not that they do every feature the best possible way. In any case where the initial rendering is bad, it's trivially fixable with your existing browser affordances.

On HN, yes, the arrows are small. And you can trivially zoom in whenever you need them to be bigger and more easily select one over the others. This is worlds ahead of mobile-first designs that lock you into one specific view that you can't modify.

As I said in the other comment: "mediocre design you can recover from" is much more pleasant than meth-addled design you're stuck with -- which about sums up HN/old reddit vs typical mobile first.

>It's still bad, though - too zoomed out, can't read anything without zooming in a lot with a phone and when you do,

Huh? New reddit doesn't do that any better, which can fit only a tiny amount of readable text on the screen as well.
Land line telephones got replaced by cell phones. That didn't make land lines less of a utility. Anything could be replaced somewhere down the road.

You don't really have a choice with regards to your YouTube usage, currently. There isn't anything near YouTube, and due to it's currently-established presence, we won't realistically see it getting replaced any time soon.
I have to maximize my terminal so I can slice it into a bunch of tmux and vim windows and make a pseudo-tiled window manager.
YJIT: A basic block versioning JIT compiler for CRuby
Ain’t no drama like pac man drama.
Again, apples to carrots.

You can play a game at 40hz on a TV but in VR that would instantly give you motion sickness.

Different limitations and challenges.
> Perhaps the biggest disadvantage of sodium batteries is their late start.

Sodium batteries have a long history. I know the US Navy was using them for batteries on their submarines back in the 70s, and they surely started long before then. Lead-acid batteries emit H2 which would be a disaster in a sub.

On problem I remember about them was that they run very hot, and are liable to catch fire. Perhaps that has been solved in the last five decades!
My net worth went up like 20% this month with Bitcoin Cash. Maybe there are a lot like me?
Here's the answer: because it's not written for just 2 devices. It's written to sync however many devices you want -- 3 or 4 or 5 or whatever. Both your phones, your tablet, your laptop, and your watch.

And it has to sync when your devices might never actually be turned on at the same time. And you want it to sync when you're traveling, and you don't want to open your home firewall for security reasons.

So it requires a single, centralized, always-on server as the source of truth. And given the speed of light, whether that server is 3 miles or 3,000 miles away is largely irrelevant.

And writing additional code to sync directly when devices are on the same LAN and turned on at the same time, as a special case, is not only entirely redundant -- but you still have to sync with the server, since you generally want the information backed up as well in case you lose your devices, or they're stolen, or damaged. Using your examples of Contacts and Calendar, those are often some of the most important things in someone's life to keep synced remotely.

Does that answer your question?
fn trust_me_i_dont_need_a_borrow_checker<'a, 'b> (x: &'a mut u32) -> &'b mut u32 {
unsafe { core::mem::transmute(x) }
}

fn main() {
let mut owned = vec![40, 2];

let mut_1 = trust_me_i_dont_need_a_borrow_checker(&mut owned[0]);
let mut_2 = trust_me_i_dont_need_a_borrow_checker(&mut owned[1]);

drop(owned);

let undefined = *mut_1 + *mut_2;
println!("The answer is {undefined}");
}
Many of us have asked themselves that and the answer is clear: we want something that will truly last.

But short-term interests go explicitly AGAINST that. If I start demanding +20% more time to deliver quality the company will likely start a campaign to replace me in 3-6 months.

From one age (or burnout quantity) we prioritize stability. Ironically it's only then when we can truly provide the good quality but by that time we're much more risk-averse.

sighs

Oh well.
One of my favorite documentaries covers this moment inside Netscape.

Code Rush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q7FTjhvZ7Y
Not sure governments should regulate to that level of detail but in principle sure why not.
This exactly. Reading the comments and understanding the huge gap between perception and reality of FSD is eye opening. There are a lot of armchair experts here who wouldn’t be caught dead driving a Tesla but are so confident in their understanding of its strengths, weaknesses, and the underlying reasons.
The easiest plan for scaling up is "don't buy the literal biggest server out there" because if you at all MAKE money when you're scaling up, you'll be able to do a hardware swap to a massive device, which will buy you tons of time to work out what to do next.

Here's Let's Encrypt doing just that: https://letsencrypt.org/2021/01/21/next-gen-database-servers...
A really bold claim, any sources?

Please remember there are a lot of different sodium-ion chemistries.
My wife’s runs a ridding academy and does a lot of landscaping, right now she has a large number of highly inflamed tick bites. I do a lot of outdoor activities (like that time I took LSD and sat in the leaf litter and watched two snakes courting) also and get bit plenty too.

I think we both have developed a strong immune reaction to tick bites like the one they are seeking to get with immunization. My wife in particular says she dan’t understand how anybody has a tick stuck to them for days without knowing it because she feels uncomfortable the minute one attaches.

The last few days haven’t been so bad but I have been picking anywhere from 1 to 3 ticks off the neck of one of my cats every day.
I don't know to be honest, but I assume that the equity is variable.
The UK is not a free society and has not been for a long time. We long since sacrificed our civil rights at the altar of various boogiemen: criminals, terrorists, immigrants, nonces, rapists.

The one thing that the two major parties have consistently agreed over the years is that our rights are a danger to ourselves.

This kind of thing is just par for the course in our performative democracy where the media holds the true power and the politicians’ only way to get ahead is to prostitute themselves to the media, particularly Murdoch. This letter to Twitter is one such performance.
Also valleys tho. Gotta have a lot of lows to have that many highs There's definitely at least three Americas. And that bottom America is a frightening reality that so many have never known otherwise
So you make 140k+ a year? That's an extremely high salary for Germany, you must be in the top 1-2% of earners in the country.

Going by levels FYI, this would put you in the 95th percentile, the equivalent in NYC would be $400,000. Which is nuts combined with your 20k/yr living expenses. When did you get your apartment, 2009?
If they had huge stature in your scene, it’s funny how different experiences can be. My interest in SY was piqued in 2000 because they had recorded an EP with song titles in Esperanto, something I dabbled in then. In spite of having a large circle of friends interested in indie music, and being active on some music forums, no one listened to SY or was even very aware of them. My conclusion at the time was that their star had waned and they must have been an ’80s or earlier ’90s thing.
When Hewlett-Packard released a similar product (rack-integrated compute), it was hard to tell if the backplane bandwidth killed it or the terrible Java management software killed it. It looks like this has a better design for each.

There doesn't seem to be a way to provision a bare metal operating system, so HPC is out, and the networking is previous-generation, so there are two opportunities for progress right there.

Now that they're VC-funded I expect an OEM to snap them up before either opportunity can be pursued.
I was on escitalopram for a while. Then I added Wellbutrin, took away the escitalopram, added fluoxetine, and now I’m off all of it.

My advice is to take a breath and focus on the present. Chip away at what’s causing your anxiety. Don’t shy away from working on yourself. Use your medication as a tool, not as a solution.

I’m painfully aware that these are all much easier said than done. It was a three year journey for me. And who knows - I may start having panic attacks again. If I do, I’m going to try buspar.

Also. Don’t be afraid to switch medications. Don’t just live with severe side effects. Sexual dysfunction, lethargy, significant weight gain - this is no way to live your life. I found the Prozac - Wellbutrin combo to be pretty tame in that department.
> The U.S. is failing less-educated people given the dismal life expectancy prospects they face compared to their more educated peers, researchers said.

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/16/life-expectancy-educated-ad...

Their lives are literally shorter. How do you think that data makes them feel?

I get that the privileged are too isolated to understand the issues facing the unprivileged these days; it seems like yet another self-reinforcing doom-loop that will eventually lead to some sort of national breakup/collapse. At which point the GDP will probably fall and then there may be some concern. I've never been much of an optimist though; maybe everything will just work out somehow.
That's not correct. While many people choose polyurethane finished wood since it is less likely to stain from liquids, oils and varnishes are popular as well.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_flooring#Finishing,_buffi...
Certain groups of islamofascists intentionally destroyed known artifacts, ruins and even excavated and preseved sites like Palmyra during earlier stages of the Syrian Civil War.

Also in areas that are in war time conflicts, or in poverty, preserving may not be a top priority.

For example Gaza is the site of many historic cities dating thousands of years old.
Any concentration of energy (gasoline, batteries, compressed air, etc) is always a potential bomb if it is released too quickly.
When Apple supports OSX for consumers, they don't exactly surface the fact that there's BSD semi-hidden in there somewhere.

That's because they own the whole stack, from CPU to GUI and support it as a unit. That's the benefit of having a product where a single owner builds and supports it as a whole.

My impression of Oxide is that that's the level of single source of truth they are bringing to enterprise in-house cloud. So, I strongly doubt the innards would ever become customer-facing (unless the customer specifically wants that, being open source after all).
> Some say that you can end up using unsafe a lot and so it’s better to stick with C or even use Zig

Using unsafe in Rust isn't inherently bad. If you're doing embedded work, using unsafe is mandatory once you get to the level of interacting with the hardware.

That doesn't mean the code is literally unsafe, just that the interactions are happening in a way that the compiler can't guarantee. That's completely expected when you're poking at hardware registers.

You still get most of the benefits of Rust, the language. I've had good success with it.
> not an island so it’ll be impossible to enforce.

Unlike drugs, wood is a bulky cargo.

Sure, you might smuggle a few planks, but you aren't going to manage to smuggle tens of thousands of trucks full unless the government is deliberately turning a blind eye.
The dumbest "minimalism" was removing the turn signal stalk. That's how Teslas can keep their margins higher than the Detroit Big3. And no union helps Tesla I guess.
When you try to use Edge to download Chrome, it aggressively prompts you to not install Chrome and just keep using Edge. I imagine it's similar if you try to install Firefox.

(On the other hand, while Apple has been taking unix tools out of the default install, Windows now comes with a bundled curl, so I just use that to download Chrome)
Definitely true of the Switch. I’m not sure if it’s true of their older hardware, though - the FC, SFC, N64 and GC were all fairly advanced for their times and still modestly priced at launch. The N64 in particular was a pile of high-end custom silicon - if they weren’t selling at a loss, they were getting one hell of a sweetheart deal from SGI and Rambus.

My understanding is that the “old technology” approach guided their portable lineup more than anything, and only started to be adopted by their mainline consoles as they started to struggle there and felt they needed a different approach from Sony/MS to compete.
The crippling problem of being able to build whatever you want
Trusting Russ
LOL how do you survive internet in general?
Website A can link to Website B which you might want to share. You might not want to visit B however, for some arbitrary reason. Plus, it seems like its very easy to track who shares your website on iOS now since only favicons will be requested.
I would love a lower end rickshaw/golfcart tier small ev. It would be great for trips and errands around town you could do on lower speed roads. I don’t need a 5000lb behemoth.
Because it's simpler for them to develop, because they make the server the source of truth, and then they can sell it to you.

And for most people, it works fine, but when you hit edge cases you're dead in the water.
Maybe the installation and testing is tedious, but I have far more confidence in my 2008's physical radio buttons than an iPad glued to the dashboard. The only thing that's every gone wrong is the volume knob getting loose, and it's a minor annoyance which - crucially - doesn't affect any other functionality and could be easily replaced if I cared.

Best of all, I don't have to take my eyes off the road to use them. Touchscreen controls are, frankly, idiotic in my opinion.
Yes, it's a lot more complicated than an EV but it's also a lot less complicated than an ICEV. The CVT is a lot less complex than an automatic transmission.

I've had my 17 year old Prius for 12 years and outside of regular maintenance and parts that are expected to fail periodically, nothing has failed. I bought it used and it needed a muffler so I bought a Toyota one and it lasted 10 years. When the car was 15 years old, I had to replace the 12v battery. Outside of that I've only replaced oil, oil filters, tires, wipers, and light bulbs (not LED). It's been a very inexpensive vehicle to own. The 600v NiMH battery still works fine and still gives me as good fuel economy as when I first got it.

I think Toyota over-engineered the Prius, meaning that when they designed it, they weren't sure how reliable it would be so they ended up making it incredibly reliable. If they'd only put that much thought into EVs.
Israel did a lot of bad things. In this particular case it's doing something that's generally right.

Destroying the Hamas is 100% the right thing to do. It's an evil movement that must be eliminated, there's no middle ground here or two sides. To qualify the difference in levels lets look at the situation over the past week. Israel told civilians to move out of the northern part of Gaza so they won't get hurt. Hamas blocked the roads so civilians won't leave.

They use their own people as human shields. They kidnapped civilian women, children and elderly people. They are evil.

Innocent people sometimes get hurt when rooting out evil. That's terrible. But the Hamas must be removed for the sake of the people in Gaza almost as much as for the sake of the people in Israel.

Worldwide support is right. People who actually understand the issue have uniformly come out in favor of this.

Some smart people have said stupid things here, like calling for a ceasefire. That isn't an option. Every time the Hamas was given leeway it has used that to arm itself and attack. E.g. a few years back 1,000 Hamas detainees were released to free one kidnapped Israeli soldier. They promised that they would not attack as a condition of their release. Yet most of them took a part in the October 7th attack. To make matters worse they focused on kidnappings, they learned the effect that has.
Bandwidth pricing works the same as product pricing, you are falling for the classic engineer trap in thinking the sum of the parts somehow determines the price. Cloud bandwidth prices are many many magnitudes more than what it "costs" to transfer.
Almost certainly GCP

$ dig NS withpersona.com.
withpersona.com. 21600 IN NS ns-cloud-c2.googledomains.com.

$ dig withpersona-sandbox.com.
withpersona-sandbox.com. 271 IN A 34.110.230.244

$ whois 34.110.230.244
NetRange: 34.64.0.0 - 34.127.255.255
CIDR: 34.64.0.0/10
NetName: GOOGL-2
Most people just don't care or never knew the difference. Like keming, once you notice it, you will likely notice for the rest of your life.
So...

Why do you need such high availability that a rare power outage, network outage, or equipment failure is such a big deal?

I ask having spent a lot of my college years (and some beyond) trying to run "enterprise grade uptime on a college student budget" - with the appropriate frustration. I've come around to a more casual, "As long as I can reasonably get it back up in a day or two, meh..." way of thinking about various services.

It's important to figure out what you need and what you want - a few friends and I once had a stack of rather compute-heavy boxes in a rack, and we ran most of them without a UPS. The provided UPS wasn't enough amps for what we were running, so we just backed up the core stuff and left the crunchers subject to outages. Stuff could restart easily enough without a big deal. It was annoying, but not a big deal.

I'd argue that most startups don't need a multi-region, globally backed up infrastructure. And that they'd be a lot better off with less, cashflow-wise. But I guess that's not "Built to scale to 10B users" that VC fund expect to see these days, so... jump through the hoops provided?
They're talking about polyurethane. It does have a plasticy feel too it.
LLMs can absolutely learn new words. Try it with GPT4, you can make up words with definitions and it will start using them in conversation.
If news outlets took all of the money they have spent paying writers to tell us that a new battery technology will be here any day now, they probably could have funded one that actually will be here any day now.
Here's a link to one of the discontinued products for reference:

https://usb.brando.com/usb-solar-charger-with-mp3-player-and...
Lots of people are highly motivated by the need to eat and don’t have the luxury of caring about history.
If I spent that $20k on drugs at once I would have been dead. Instead it supported years of poor decision making and avoiding building my future. I started getting my act together at 19 (money was long gone) and it wasn't until 23 that I stopped making really poor decisions.

The best thing I did with it was use a couple thousand to buy a used car. The money should have gone into a trust with someone guaranteeing I used the money on food, clothes, school, etc. What I needed the most was someone that cared enough to guide me. The money by itself set me back.
Immediate reaction: 's/Is Foreign Policy/Are Humans/'

It's somewhat less irrational if you treat the motive and gut emotions of each actor as axioms. Somewhat.
The nice key about this is "local datacenter" - it's nice to be able to drive over to your hardware when needed.

I've found some nice colo deals but I'm a bit hesitant at being too far away and requiring remote hands, though I should work out exactly how much I'm paying for power ...
Do they support GPU's?
> How is this different from any other request to a website?

It's not. Which is the point. The share menu is supposed to just pass a URL from Safari to another app. It's a glorified copy and paste, not a page load.
I2P actually has a functional network, Veilid has just launched, and isn't really available to the public in a meaningful way.

Outside of the practical, I2P is built entirely in Java, Veilid is built in Rust, so potentially more performant, Veilid uses modern ciphers so is potentially more secure, Weilid is potentially easier to modify and integrate into apps, and Veilid locally encrypts its storage, I2P does not.

So, realistically, it's a more modern take on I2P, designed to work on mobile, improvements are subtle, but might help create additional adoption if they can get it into people's hands.
We don't pay nearly enough attention to this, considering how relatively simple it is to do right.
> Hysteria is a powerful, fast and censorship resistant proxy

What a statement.
But the Na has lost its electron to the Cl, so not the same thing.
> but we should be treating hot things as dangerous by default

There's a different between "ouch is hot" and "ouch I have third degree burns", you're parroting the talking points McDonalds aggressively sold the media on.

The point is that hot coffee is not meant to be hot enough to cause 3rd degree burns. It should not be so hot that you go into shock if you spill it on yourself.

If you were told about this during the current events cycle all you had was McDonald's mouthpieces talk about how she was an ambulance chaser, and not how she'd asked for only $10 thousand to just cover the hospital bills. The giant lawsuit amount you saw was after the jury applies punitive damages because McDonalds (1) lied about why it need the coffee so hot (saying commuters wanted in, not the actual reality of it saving 20 seconds), (2) this kind of extreme burn had occurred more than 700 times already, (3) was significantly above recommended maximum food temperature, and (4) McDonald's own expert acknowledged that it was physically impossible to their coffee at the serving temperature.

Going to your knife analogy, a better example might be a knife with a handle designed your hand in normal use would easily slip onto a sharp area - lets say a kitchen knife with a sharpened bolster. Your argument would be "knives are dangerous so you should be careful when using them", and therefore despite the design of the knife in standard use being much more dangerous and likely to cause harm than any other knife it would be fine. As the lawsuit found however, if you make a product that in normal use is significantly more dangerous than any other product when used in the same way, it may just be that your design is defective and the resulting harm is due to that defective design and not user error.
Not sure why they haven’t used tactile vibrations on the screens like iPhones but stronger and more accurate plus finger hovering sensors to indicate/enlarge the button focus when your fingers get close. Part of hardware buttons is getting an instant feed back that you’ve switched it without looking.
Generative AI: get ready to multiply your Technical Debt
> We safeguard trust in secure end-to-end encryption. We clearly exclude so-called client-side scanning, i.e. the installation of surveillance functionalities and security vulnerabilities in our smartphones.

What does "exclude" mean in this context? Should client-side scanning be allowed or not?
MAME = multi arcade machine emulation
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAME

DAW = digital audio workstation
> of course I would want to earn a US tech salary while living somewhere in the country side, who wouldn't

I wouldn’t. I like cities and center of culture and human activity. And the stats generally show cities growing globally, so I’m not the only one.