skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The slabs should be "perfect" from the shop. This includes sink cutouts. For whatever reason, there is a tendency for faucet holes to be cut onsite. This bothers me, but it's true.

Not only is it stupidly messy, it's less precise, dangerous, and often the crews are too careless to protect the inside of the cabinet boxes (where the slug of stone that's being cut from the top will drop and bounce around).
Just seeing this now. Very busy with work at the moment to dive into learning a new language/paradigm, but I will honestly set a reminder to check in with you in a few months after I've dug into it some and I'll be sure to take notes with this in mind throughout.

I love the idea of a community investing in this type of outreach (beginner oriented) and I'll be happy to contribute when I can.
Only barely makes sense, you mean. And only if you squint...
People have lives and have to go to jobs. It's not a cop out. You can't go to the basement every time there's a tornado watch. It's just not a thing.

I really dislike how smug, dismissive, and judgemental you're being. I don't think this is a positive contribution.
Solving myopia in VR seems like it would have been a good place to start when developing headsets.
(author of the paper in your second link, which the Biscuit spec also references)

Macaroons are an abstract thing. They don't define an encoding format, nor any semantics or language for the caveats. So a lot of detail is left up to the implementer, which is why they're fairly hard to use. Their basic form is also built on symemtric keys and hmacs, so only the issuer can verify, which is a significant limitation in the real world.

AFAICT Biscuits define those (protobuf for encoding, a logic language for the caveats) and use public keys instead to allow other parties than the issuer (=holder of the root key) to verify them.
Chimerism is a whole lot of fun. Realistically, there are loads of humans with portions of their body differing pretty significantly in genes just due to somatic cell mutations during early development (not just standard zygote-fusing), right?

Sure, most of these changes would still be nearly imperceptible, but maybe some day whole-genome sequencing will be cheap enough that the true frequency of mosaicism can be studied by yoinking cells from all over one's body.

In the mean time, the intentional 'chimerization' of plants via grafting is pretty interesting too. Adam's Laburnum is a very visually striking example somewhat akin to this bird, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2B_Laburnocytisus_%27Adamii%2... sporting both yellow and coral-pink flowers, though the bilateral nature of the bird's mosaicism is what's really special.
It sounds neat - but in-practice it's something other schemes have had for yonks, albeit centralized instead of being entirely at the discretion of the subject (e.g. OAuth2's delegation grant), and there's the obvious risk of someone's token being used to counter-sign or delegate permission without their knowledge (this isn't unrealistic considering the sheer number of daily posters to StackOverflow who think browser's localStorage is an acceptable place to hold secrets and keys...).
> Fg = Gm1m2/d^2, you get infinite force when a marble (mass 1) is at the center of a planet (mass2)

A non-point mass only approximates to a point mass when you're not inside it. The gravitational effect of being inside a shell is nothing... so as d tends to zero the mass that's not a shell also tends to zero, so you actually get zero force.
i wouldn't say in our heads like we made it up, but it's just an experience that you cannot replicate if you've already experienced modern computing. growing up and experiencing the changes from analog to digital, dial-up to always on gigabit, 8bit to 64bit address space, 8bit color to 32bit, 8bit audio to 24bit, is all different because we have that frame of reference so it means more to us.

also, i didn't read manuals back then. i didn't know where they were. closest to a manual i had were Byte magazines
But to know via scientific method requires proof (or disproof) by experimentation
But isn’t that what we are doing right now? We don’t want deflation, but the fed is trying to create low inflation numbers so that the economy can get over the high inflation hangover. It’s widely accepted that there’s a Goldilocks zone of low inflation 1%-3% that keeps the real economy growing.
Customize server functions in TypeScript without middleware
Oh, I actually appreciate unlimited with throttle. They've always had data caps too but I wouldn't be surprised if the average user knew about them. But maybe the overage plan manager did because Fi is niche? And sorry, I was just bringing up Fi as an example of something being unlimited since so many people were acting like nothing is.
Ask Pittsburgh Dad[1]. It's "yinz" in the second person, I think.

[1] https://youtu.be/HrtW2uC7XUE?si=jYWD3fgN0n8-AOrR
Same if you're going to afford a hamburger every hour.
AI art and its modern tooling ecosystem is at a point now that it unironically takes more effort to generate an intentionally innovative AI image than it is to draw it from scratch.

Just look at ComfyUI: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI
So...you're a recruiter, except the applicant pays you instead of the company. And you're less well-connected than a company-paid recruiter. And you're not getting paid by anyone to find candidates for them.

Sorry if that's a bit blunt, but just trying to understand the service you're offering.
I believe Musk is smart, but also bipolar and narcissistic, and likely often on stimulants, which makes him regularly do dumb things.
that is one proxy
In that spirit of horrendous stories that make you want to support laws on your right to own the physical hardware you bought: have you heard about the airbag for bikers that is subscription only and doesn't activate if your subscription is not up to date.

https://jalopnik.com/this-dystopian-biker-airbag-crash-vest-...
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Interesting. $500. Quad core 1.8 GHz, 40W. Quite a large 8MB L3 cache.

Just for yucks I ran the BYTE UNIX benchmarks 5.1.3 (same as they used) on my 4 GB VisionFive 2 (RISC-V quad core 1.5 GHz dual issue in-order CPU similar to Arm A55) which I paid $49 for on the Kickstarter.

Sadly I can't see how to correlate the results to their graph. They say they rescaled some results :-( According to the README the baseline is a SPARCstation 20-61 (60 MHz?) which is set to 10.0 for each benchmark.

System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 5602579.7 480.1
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 1433.4 260.6
Execl Throughput 43.0 1832.2 426.1
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 203687.5 514.4
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 67413.7 407.3
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 363829.1 627.3
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 391228.8 314.5
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 42404.5 106.0
Process Creation 126.0 2086.5 165.6
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 2900.7 684.1
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1253.5 2089.1
System Call Overhead 15000.0 740463.6 493.6
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 416.6

I found a Pi 4 result online https://gist.github.com/lonelyion/41c12fbc3d0bd6dfbe94062574...

System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 10096040.6 865.1
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2389.1 434.4
Execl Throughput 43.0 927.1 215.6
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 114719.5 289.7
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 31989.5 193.3
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 323307.3 557.4
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 162501.6 130.6
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 49867.6 124.7
Process Creation 126.0 1872.7 148.6
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 2535.2 597.9
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 768.3 1280.5
System Call Overhead 15000.0 488198.2 325.5
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 327.6
Ask HN: Quiet Quitting as Tech Lead
Long story short: I got promoted to tech lead, certain coworkers were jealous and started to undermine me much more than usual, boss got transferred, new boss trusts the coworkers that have been sabotaging me (because they are from the same country mostly). I'm now an overqualified secretary taking meeting notes and asking these coworkers want they want to do. I have zero authority and no support from management. My enthusiasm for the job went from 500% to zero now. I resent my coworkers for wasting a good opportunity to have a tech lead that wanted to do right by them.

I decided to quiet quit and do the minimal amount of work necessary to collect my payment. Not picking up fights, not caring about the technical decisions and secretly hoping everything crashes and burn. I now take pleasure in seeing my coworkers make obvious mistakes and look bad with the new boss. Better yet if they cause an outage and the new boss has to join a call at 2am on a Saturday. Usually, I'd have quit already but I want to make them suffer a bit more.

I do not see any way to revert this. it's over for me... but maybe I'm seeing this through the wrong perspective.

Can someone a positive spin on this?
I suspect you did not understand what I said and your bias affected your judgement. Please explain what you think I meant.
I was gonna go with "Australia is not an island" but, well, I think we can see the problem in that statement. :-)

In the United States, OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) has implemented strict guidelines regarding silica (https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/2018-12/fy16_sh-296...). Silica is highly present in things like concrete, so it is weird to me that something other than concrete would be singled out.

> You appear to have made a quip unsupported by medical data.

No, I have not. The "quip" is ignoring the other sources of silica while singling out this one particular one.
> So hold the people intentionally violating safety practices accountable.

There's already an automatic process for this. They get silicosis.
Awesome, thanks for the suggestion / link! Actually left another comment about potentially doing semantic image search to improve results so wrapping my head around it now.
I remember seeing a talk[1] at Gophercon a while back on how nightmarish macaroons were to implement.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZFv62qz8RU
If you like this sort of thing try Wellness by Nathan Hill.
Technology to stop drunk drivers could be coming to every new car in the nation
Wayfair CEO tells employees to expect long hours and 'blending work and life'
It's very much worth reading the full reasoning within the SafeWork decision (page 56):

https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/sites/default/files/202...

SafeWork's view is that the industry is too much of a non-compliant mess to recommend any other option apart from a complete ban.
Will unifying all talent data solve a lot of the staff shortage problems?
We’re currently testing this hypothesis by unifying and enriching all talent data sources from CRMs, ATSs, white papers, professional networks, social, directories.
You haven’t cited anything and especially haven’t cited anything about how violence is decreased because it’s just not true.

Look at all the references I gave you, so unless you wanna bring references then I’m done
You might be interested in or have already read the Inspector O series by “Frank Church.” To the degree it is accurate (or not) it was fascinating to think of all the things that a mostly stable but alien-to-me society must contain. Cops, municipal workers of all sorts, and the parallel world of a Communist party.

https://www.amazon.com/Corpse-Koryo-Inspector-Novel-Novels/d...
Is it somehow known that CCC hasn’t been co-opted by Amazon? Frankly I figured Amazon would have bought them out a decade ago, but maybe the CCC founders have a stronger ethical compass than I do.
I understand why you say this but it sounds awfully pessimistic. Its still an area of active theoretical research, we really don't know that there is no way to get information from a black hole, as I understand it from the black hole information paradox[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox
I hope you have better luck than I did!

A few years ago, my partner and I built vendazzo.com (now defunct). It was an e-commerce search engine on products listed on Shopify shops (sound familiar? :)). At the time, we had > 100m products listed, and I don't remember how many shops we were indexing.. over 100k I think, but we had access to over a million. Overall, I think your approach is very similar to ours, but we managed to keep our costs lower. At the time, we were spending ~$550/mo, and our search times were under 300ms. We had established partnerships with a number of shops, and we had a few users, but not nearly enough. That's where the wheels came off. The site operated for over a year, but the monthly costs wore us down until we finally decided to pull the plug.

I still maintain that this is a good idea, and constantly have to fight off the urge to "try again", however, to do it properly, I think funding would be necessary, or finding some way to organically gain a lot of users.

Looking back, there are things I could have done to reduce my opex further, but in the end, it still wouldn't have mattered if I couldn't figure out how to acquire users.
>Elon is a terrible live speaker and yet I think his keynotes are pretty good.

Can you give a good example?

The Cyber truck unveil comes to mind as one of his worst, he clearly did not even look at the slides before going on stage as he says one thing and the slide has some completely different topic on it. If anything the glass break was the saving grace of the presentation. At least they got a meme out of it.

The Cyber truck delivery event was him stuttering over a couple videos making it up as he went along, then awkwardly handing over keys (its as if they didn't think about the flow of the vehicles coming on to and going off the stage) and then thats a wrap. Lets not talk about how he is always 30+ minutes late. Does this sound like a guy who gives even an ounce of care?

When the Model 3 delivery event occurred he was going through the breakup with Amber Heard so last second he ordered a switch to some bullshit song that he felt represented his relationship with Heard. I'm sure they have gone through a countless number of marketing people. Hell they had the guy that helped design Apple stores and even he left in 2013.

His presentations are a complete insult to the Jobs era presentations, hell they don't even come close to anything "Tim Apple"™ produces.

He always makes the excuse that "we are more concerned with making the best product so we dont waste time prepping for the presentation". Well Apple can make excellent polished products AND put consistent minimum effort into their presentations.

Ok I get it, its just a presentation for some capitalist company so what?

There was an old philosophy that Jobs used to talk about in his biography about how the truly passionate craft maker takes enormous pains to ensure that when making an item, it is made with beauty and care both outside where everyone can see but also both inside where no one will ever look. Think of the company itself as an item, Apple definitely still has this mentality, just look at how components are laid out in their product teardowns. Look at how they try to polish everything about the company brand, image, store designs specific to each city etc. I admire this thinking and try to aspire to it in my life but Musk is a complete insult to that type of thinking.
tptacek wrote up a rather nice comparative survey of the field, including Biscuits and Macaroons

https://fly.io/blog/api-tokens-a-tedious-survey
> I have always had trouble reconciling the "tidal stresses rip everything apart" with the idea that "everything hits the center in finite time, thus infinite density and singularity".

From whose perspective? Two astronauts, a watcher and a faller, have two very different experiences.

> Do the photons nearer the center pull away from the photons further out?

I believe their wavelengths increase toward infinity. They don't move more quickly away from one another but, rather, become red shifted.

But I'm just a layman so my guess is as good as yours.
The problem with this philosophy is that we have brain scan studies, phylogenetic, developmental, neuroscience, and thousands of pages from established experts on psychology that document these three systems of learning and memory.

Who give a hoot we live in Descartes' demon and anything could be not real? The elephant is in the room. Id/ego/superego is clearly a thing, either that or you're not familiar with the field, or you're not living in shared reality! Malignant egalitarians who think everyone's opinions are just should really learn to push back harder on things that have, like, one in a trillion odds on being false.

The only thing up for debate are the definitions, functions, and boundaries of these three.
If you're only paying a small amount for the materials, most people will be a lot more price sensitive on installation, so there's a race to the bottom.
I mostly ride on back roads and side-streets, my city banned billboards and is very small and close enough to the woods to not feel like one. But I get what you mean.
This is something @Asa Miller and I are building: apps for kids under 12 that unlock access to the wonder and power of the web in a fun / safe way.

We’ve started with social messaging for kids under 12, that includes a kid friendly GPT bot they can interact with... Genie.

DM me for early beta access.

Beta site: https://beta.genie.gg
This is not a problem on Linux, at least. File system (and network) access can still be restricted using namespaces.
System 7 used to have a 99 level limit on nested folders. as bored teens, we'd do stupid things like nest folders to that 99 deep limit. in the bottom folder, create an apple script file that would force the user to okay/cancel a silly comment. "Click Okay/Accept If you agree dylan604 is the greatest" kind of stupid. Clicking cancel would do nothing, so that you had to click okay to continue. We'd then make this as a startup item. We'd then use an app to make the apple script file hidden, then go up a folder to make the folder hidden, go up a level and make the folder hidden, x99 kind of thing. i can't remember if there was something about the folders being hidden that prevented just nuking the stack from the upper level, or if it really was that simple to clear.
For those unaware, Shopify already has platform wide search. You can use https://shop.app/ (or the app), and it also has some chatbot thing that can offer suggestions
Because imgur scrambled the order during upload. /facepalm
Wayfair accumulated deficit is $3.84B. That means in its lifetime, it has lost $3.84B. To build a website for rugs.

Balance sheet wise, one of the worst performing companies of all time. Should definitely look for a new CEO.
> One of the "Suggested safer alternatives" is Granite which can have silica content up to 45% (Engineered stone being 95%+)

> So instead of 2 years to develop silicosis it will instead take 4 years of working with the "safe alternatives"?

It isn’t a good idea to assume linear effects, especially with biology.
World ID explicitly set out to solve PoP, which includes uniqueness of individuals within a system, such that "creating 1,000 bot accounts would require finding 1,000 human users willing to consistently verify their authenticity"[0]. They consider CAPTCHAs to fail "because any human can pass multiple of them". They advertise it as a method for "Control Over Max Number of Accounts per Person"[1] (in addition to "Protection Against Unlawful Account Sharing").

So at the very least it seems like a core feature of World ID. For some other system, if it allows verifying users' humanness but not uniqueness or identity then I don't think I'd class it as an ID system. Maybe I'm failing to imagine all possibilities.

[0]: https://worldcoin.org/blog/engineering/humanness-in-the-age-...

[1]: https://worldcoin.org/world-id?for=apps
This is true, but I have to buy in to open myself up to it. Until they start giving away whatever VR headset it is, and until hell freezes over and I actually put it on, I’m safe. But the thought of it does make me sick/sad.
I thought the general determination of the singularity came from the 1916 schwartzchild solution to einsteins field equations.

I would note that reality is vacuously what reality is, regardless of model agreement. This however doesn’t mean reality isn’t weirder than we observe. That’s usually the first lesson you learn as you move beyond Newtonian physics.
I think this is my first ever comment on HN, mostly just a lurker. But I had to say the tool look pretty cool.

A quick question about your development; What was the reasoning for going with a browser extension?
Was there other paths you looked at?

I am not an avid user of extensions and so I always wonder about this?
I'm sure there is a large market for it, but I'm not aware of it. Have you done research on this?

Either way good luck. I'd be interested in trying it out, but the price point is not for me.
I'm not saying you shouldn't charge for it, I just don't think I'm your target audience.
There are lots of telltale endpoints that you could just HEAD for a 200 vs 404. Or even just the products.json itself is a pretty good giveaway.

Or an even better way I’ve done in the past (to check which competitor’s platform a list of prospects is using in bulk) is just to use the DNS — a Shopify shop will be CNAMEd to a certain Shopify hostname.
Almost all physicists have assumed that quantum effects will get rid of the singularity, as you say. The import of this paper is that there is no singularity even without accounting for quantum effects (at least for Kerr black holes and one particular definition of “singularity”).
Our equations break down because they are incomplete.

But that does not mean that reality does not also break down.
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You can wrap those identities behind anonymous usernames. The point is just to be able to link 1 identity per person.
The idea is if you can make one fusion generator, you can make one million, as they're safe enough to build into every city and town in the world, just like gas and coal power plants are now. The only real danger to the population will be the high voltage power lines.
Let's hope they go back to using humans and non-intelligent automated systems to deny care.
Yeah I get what you mean. I’m not like, a luddite, or anything, I just don’t agree with the authors notion that advertising is particularly all-encompassing, especially when you’re not actively using a computer.
Cassandra is the "best fucking database for gen AI," says DataStax CEO
Probably better to just shut down and give the investors whatever is left back. Replaced by wish, temu and other money pits
I’m sorry I was ambiguous. I didn’t mean “unsustainable” in the ecological sense (though I think that’s true as well). I meant that free returns, especially but not only in clothes, is expensive and of course is baked into purchase price.

For some reason brick and mortar shops can resell the product (and often reject returns if not) while e-commerce do not. I feel like Amazon pioneered this for the same reason clothes sellers do, but Amazon is so dominant it could be clouding my memory.

In any case, I think the inexorable downward pressure on pricing will make the overpurchase/free return in clothing too expensive, and it will be dropped. Amazon famously cuts off customers who return too much: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-permanently-banning-cu...

They are supposedly trying cut the returns cost: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/10/how-amazon-plans-to-fix-its-...

Apparently the term is “reverse logistics”: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/21/the-hidden-cos...
I think you might not have been able to drag such a stack into the Trash, as the Trash was actually a folder and that would have been 100 levels deep (temporarily, before emptying the Trash).