skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are hilarious and infuriating but also, perhaps, correct?

My gf (who used to work in the sector) says a lot of people like to sit in front of the TV and “watch what’s on” — one of the reasons broadcast TV still exists.

You see this with sites like Netflix becoming decreasingly useful, urging you to simply click on something rather than consult your curated watch list. Some of them now hide your watch list!

She suggests the same applies to shopping: some people just want to push the buy button, which is well known in brick and mortar retail, especially low margin ones like grocery shops: end caps, mid shelves and all sorts of other strategies are used to get you to either buy on impulse or buy the version they’d rather sell of what you have in mind.

So for these sites the same applies: show a few options and the customer will simply pick one. Spam the tags, DWIM the customer’s ill-formed, uninformed, or simply unsatisfiable query, and see if the punter buys.

For nerds like us this is a pessimization. But perhaps for the majority this works better.
IME when you dig into the project and financials for companies like yours they're not software companies but service companies. This is not an insult; the economics are much different, and typically don't get the scalability that made software so ridiculously profitable.
I think you may be too cynical.

People in support groups can provide invaluable input. When you go to a doctor or surgeon, you are getting a professional's perspective. When you talk to a support group, you are hearing from people who have actually experienced the results of that.

For example, another family member had a major surgery. Prior to getting the surgery, they talked to specialists at some really good institutions about what they could offer. There were surgical and non-surgical options available. However, the questions that were asked came from being in contact with a support group. These were people who had had the various procedures, and who had had them at various institutions. Without that input, we would not have been able to ask good questions, or be very discerning about what these specialists were saying. Without the support group, we would have been lost in that process.

EDIT. I should also add that at the facility where the surgery was done, we met several people who had gone to very highly esteemed hospitals for the same kind of thing, but were having to have a 2nd go at it at the facility we chose. That could have been us. We learned that even well credentialed people at highly respected places will perform procedures they have little experience with.
I’ve had good results with brute forcing tagging even when it’s not my job.

If I use my product and hate it, I make it better. Knowing they some other department sucks for years is no good.

I think all this boils down to companies not really giving a flip.
It promotes a kind of magical thinking which spreads and leads people down the path that fruit will cure their cancer.
This is a lot of words to say that EVs are currently more dangerous than ICE vehicles to park in a garage.
Patents. The classical government-granted monopoly. Incidentally the only type of undefeatable monopoly. Created with the best intentions, of course: to “encourage innovation”.
When you are finished there, you can continue learning Modern C++ here:

https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines
A lot comes down to how people measure success.

In a capitalist system, success is often measured as having the most bucks, be it deserved or undeserved, how they got them, or how many people were ripped off on the way doesn't matter.

Measuring the success of open-source projects is more about how they managed to impact the world positively. How they make tasks easier, bring happiness, inspire people, build community, give people more control over their lives, or even save lives, etc. Therefore open source products don't need to compete with closed-source projects, because they have a different measurement of success.

If an open-source engineer figures out a way that pays your bills, then this is even better, but not necessarily required for someone to be a successful open-source hard- or software engineer. It is a failure of the capitalistic system and broadly society if those engineers are not given the chance to continue their good work.

And this is were I disagree, advocating for being more competitive, and giving up your morale rules one by one is "race to the bottom" behavior. This is why there are 1 dollar stores and tons of low quality crab for sale.
I’m 42 now but I started when I was 6 on model cars.
The point of website search (at least on commerce sites) is not to help the users find what they're searching for, but to put other, possibly related, products in front of their eyes. On most sites drilling down through limiters falls apart after about the third or fourth restriction is chosen, often because the sites seem designed to not give three or four clear choices (which is what the user wants to see), but ten or more vaguely related items (is this due to the fear that giving three or four results will imply that the site has a shortage of items to choose from?). Keep marketers & managers away from site design.
Their resin printers are completely uncompetitive. Their latest model dates from 2018 iirc.
Well data protection is expensive, nobody said the contrary.

Backup what you value the most, ignore what you don't and apply tiers depending on what needs to be kept but you can deal with transferring it back home slowly and what you need immediately in case of a failure.

My rules of thumb are:

- always invest 3x the price of your hot live NAS storage in backups. If you can't afford buying 40TB of storage, you can't afford having 10TB of live storage. Period. Goal is to have at least one copy locally and one externally and have more space to on the backup storages to account for retentions, changes and help with migrations.

- if you can't afford 3 redundant storages(RAID), favor having 3 times non redundant storage (no RAID) over having less copies of redundant one.

Additional tip to reduce cost and avoid expensive cloud offering is to find a reliable and trustable relative or friend that can host your external copy of your backup. Nebula or Tailscale now makes it very easy without having to configure routers and stuff. In exchange you can offer that person to host his/her backup storage.

Also digitalizing material stuff is nice, but printing digital photos is also a great way to preserve copies. I'd rather save the photos I cherish the most than having 3 backup copies of 10TB of blurry or non outstanding photos. After years of having them all digitally, I am inveting back in printing photos and making albums. You can also print photobook multiple times and have some stored at a relative's place.
Just look at the expanded js code, I also had troubles with the more informal description. It's a one-time substitution but for all matches.
NPR could do so, but that wouldn't advance the agenda. This non-issue isn't being pushed by mistake.
I think the article is grossly misrepresenting the dangers from lithium battery fires
in other places than cars.
Especially about escooters and bikes as well as air travel.

There is statistically one fire a week on passenger aircrafts in the US now. ⁽¹⁾⁽² ⁾
New York City is trying to deal with a large number of fires started by ebikes og escooters. ⁽³⁾⁽⁴⁾

To dismiss this problem by finding a fire that happened in Vietnam that was incorrectly attributed seems quite biased.

When it comes to the stats for cars, they are probably correct but somewhat misguided.
Most electric cars are pretty new, a large percentage are nearly brand news.

To compare them to the entire fleet of fossile fueled car fires is a bit unfair.
I think if you compare all new and brand new combustion engine fires the stats
would look different.

May well be much higher for combustion engines, I dont know, but the comparisons
used in the article are in my opinion biased.

¹ https://explore.dot.gov/t/FAA/views/LithiumBatteries/Inciden...

² https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2023/03/03...
³ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/nyregion/e-bike-lithium-b...
⁴ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/22/ebike-batter...
Yes. Usually it's related to some sort of electrical fire that occurs when the vehicle is off, that catches fluids (brake fluid, gas, etc) on fire, although a big enough regular electrical fire can do it too.

Here's an article on a recall Hyundai/Kia are going through right now: https://fortune.com/2023/09/27/hyundai-kia-recall-nearly-3-4...

They're recommending you park the vehicles outside and away from structures.
I have about that much data and LTO-6 (2.5tb per tape), and it's a huge PITA. I'm probably doing it wrong, but this is what worked for me: making an ext4 filesystem as a file, exactly 2500gb in size, formatting it, and stuffing it with data until there is < 5 gb free. take the checksum and manifest of that file, and write it to tape (takes 4 hrs without verify, plus another 1-3 hrs (can't remember now, its faster) to verify. repeat until your 40tb is done.

I know you can use ZFS snapshots but I'm not experienced enough to trust that I could make a 20-40tb snapshot without screwing something up. Plus it's all video files so I can roughly keep track of what's what and I can ignore the stupid LTO compression.

It takes days, its noisy, and very tedious. But thats #hoarderLyfe lol
Ah yes, clearly it's only those people shopping at Walmart that would not be happy about price increases. More than that, it's only that cheap crap that they buy that would get more expensive. Enlightened people like you will just stand above it and buy nothing but organic, locally sourced crap!
Fixing this is the promise of enterprise deployments of LLMs, correct? That you can take the list of initial result texts from a shitty elasticsearch implementation, pass it into an LLM with a prompt "you are a user looking for <query>, please use common sense to comb through these results and find a few good ones" and get better intramural search quality.

The only other enterprise application I am aware of is applying the homework cheating app to customer facing roles that require email/copy generation.
Feels like there's a pretty widespread problem that goes something like this:

* PO: We need search!

* PM to architect: Google how to implement search!

* Architect: googles "best search library 2023 java" Aha! Let's use Elasticsearch!

* PM to Team: Alright, I need a search feature next sprint. Architect googled for 5 minutes and says we should use elasticsearch!

* Team: Alright, integrating elasticsearch in a sprint should work. Bob, you work on loading the data, Eve, you work on rendering the search results.

* Team (2-3 weeks later): Another successful value delivery! Alright, what's next PM?

* PM: PO says we need a chat bot...

If it's not obvious why this is a problem, getting search to work well requires a lot of tweaking and tuning. You can't just slap a search engine into a product and expect it to work well. It's hilariously incompatible with the assembly line style of work that many software outfits employ these days. It also requires deep understanding of what a search engine does and how its algorithms work.
apt uninstall morale

That's it.

I still regret that I had ethical issues and good morals or I'd be a millionaire along with my classmates. During the dotcom boom we had a ton of ideas, all of them ranging from sketchy to unethical. A good bunch of them was invented by someone else later on.
Cowardice is the smart move. Accepting whatever consequences the world wishes to assign is for chumps.
Again I have to ask if you've ever used a Prusa, no really this time?

Prusa users use Prusaslicer, not Cura. Printables.com often hosts gcode files that require no slicing at all by end users. These points completely aside -- do you think 3d printer novices are going to last long without learning a slicer? Is that really your assertion?

Also, is installing Cura a "nightmare" ? So much explosive language!
That’s clarified almost immediately in the article.

Also, Wikipedia articles can have multiple authors.
>> React is not traditionally used for making games, but that's part of the fun and the challenge.

From
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38437821 :

> MS Flight Simulator cockpits are built with MSFS Avionics Framework which is React-like and MIT licensed:

https://github.com/microsoft/msfs-avionics-mirror/tree/main/...

preactjs may or may not be faster: https://preactjs.com/

Million.js is faster than preact, and lists a number of references under Acknowledgements: https://github.com/aidenybai/million#acknowledgments

https://million.dev/docs :

> We use a novel approach to the virtual DOM called the block virtual DOM. You can read more on what the block virtual DOM is with Virtual DOM: Back in Block and how we make it happen in React with Behind the block().

React API reference > Components > Profiler:
https://react.dev/reference/react/Profiler

From the React Developer Tools browser extension docs: https://react.dev/learn/react-developer-tools :

> Now, if you visit a website built with React, you will see the Components and Profiler panels.

The Redux DevTools extension also inspects apps written without React+Redux; Angular, Cycle, Ember, Fable, Freezer, Mobx, PureScript, Reductive, and Aurelia apps:
https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-devtools/blob/main/extensio...
Absolutely no sympathy. Those who live by the patent shall die by the patent.
The complaint about "rice" is that the tagging is incomplete. "vegan" isn't a bad facet, but the count is wrong. When you select "vegan", most vegan products are removed. I don't see how filtering wrong data isn't a valid complaint.

The problem is obviously that the data isn't tagged. But Costco is huge, profitable and doesn't have a huge inventory, so why can't they tag it? And if the tags are so incomplete, maybe it's better not to include them?
The responsibility of a product person is that the product works well. This includes working with design and engineering partners as well as any data annotation departments. If the search experience is shit and the head of product doesn't think it's up to them, they aren't being responsible for the product.
I have a lot of respect for Armin, but it's pretty clear he doesn't really understand the specifics of what he's talking about here.

> people are complaining (The MK4 firmware is not Open Source)

the link here is to a reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/comments/10g6fgv/prusa_givi...) in which the complaint is not only not about the MK4's firmware, it's also not even about something not being open source.

Specifically, that complaint is that PrusaSlicer (the software which turns a 3D model file into GCode instructions for the printer to follow - think PostScript, but for a 3D printer) is not developed as an open project. PrusaSlicer is open source, but most of the development happens internally at Prusa. It's a legitimate complaint, but not at all the complaint Armin claims it to be.

For the record, the Mk4 firmware is also open source, it lives here: https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy
Understand Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)
Can you summarize why "just use HTTP for transport"? It might be useful for someone to be able to tell if the assessment applies to them. "gRPC is way, way too much" and "I like working [...] strongly-typed [...]" can't be meaningfully applied.

I don't take either at face-value, e.g. I prefer statically-typed languages but wouldn't tell everyone not to use dynamic ones. I've even seen more recent recommendations to use protobuf with all fields being optional.
Consulting on the product is another important income, possibly higher than support. It can be:

- developing features or bug fixes in the open source product or an extension that are needed now by the customer

- developing a custom project (not in the open, or actually sometimes in the open) on top of your open source product for the customer

- supporting the customer for some integration with your open source product.

You can also try to sell paid extensions (that are still open source). That would be the case for XWiki Pro apps, or many WordPress extensions.

There's another way to do it, is develop your open source and sell your developer expertise for unrelated customer projects. I've worked somewhere working like this, but don't really believe it works well because you are not actually spending time in your project when you are doing this, and you are not incentivized to develop your own product when you do this. You are basically a consulting company. But you can still decide to do a bit of this.

Consulting and support can work for solo developers, but that might push quite some pressure and make it difficult to disconnect depending on the way you do this.
>Caring about what happens to the thing you bought five years down the road when the company that made it goes bankrupt is nor "ideology and politics"

Au contraire - caring about what happens to the thing you bought five years down the road is ideology. And wanting anything done about it is politics.
My partner and I decided to buy a Wii together for our first Christmas in 2009. We had a lot of fun playing online with our friends and strangers until the services went offline.

It looks like those servers went offline in 2014, but it felt like we didn't get this service for very long.

We pretty much decided from that experience we'd never buy a console again.
The reason the responsibility for this is on heads of products is not because they're directly responsible for annotating, it's because they're responsible for knowing what can and will get annotated so the feature they asked for actually works.

The work of product person shouldn't stop at the idea phase.
Fluid dynamics is indeed a complex subject, I found this on my travels, it seems to be one of the more approachable and comprehensive guides:
https://www.mcgillairflow.com/pdf/productlit/ductSysDesign_g...

Aside: paraffin wax is used in actuators, e.g. automatic green house window openers, on account of its impressive expansion. The MVHR I have also uses it for automatic "summer" bypass of the heat recovery path.
Could you elaborate on the dividends?
China may be investing in rail but that doesn't seem to be incompatible with BEV adoption. As of 2022, 22% of all new car sales in China were electrics.[1] In the US it was only 6% that year[2], and looks to be about 8% for 2023.[3]

[1] https://www.wri.org/insights/countries-adopting-electric-veh...

[2] https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/25/us-electric-car-sales-i...

[3] https://electrek.co/2023/10/12/ev-sales-7-9-us-market-volvo-...

(Side note: the standard-range Teslas use lithium iron-phosphate batteries which don't contain cobalt.)
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Why do you think it’s so cheap?
> They still load you up with many more adtech trackers on YouTube premium than you get when using adblock.

Uh, no.

With UBO and YT Premium, the only API calls that are blocked are:

www.youtube.com/generate_204 - seems to be to detect if client is online (since YT has a desktop offline mode)

www.youtube.com/api/stats/qoe (https://stackoverflow.com/a/68823010)

www.youtube.com/ptracking - general playback tracking

It's all first-party, no other ad trackers are loaded.

All of YouTube's tracking is done via your "watch history" which is via the api www.youtube.com/api/stats/watchtime. Most blockers don't block this since, as a user, you kind of expect the most useful features of YouTube to work - tracking how far into the video you've gotten (so you can return later at the same moment), and having your watch history be used to curate your recommended feed to give you more videos.
We should let people decide what sort of stove is best for themselves rather than pushing one from the top down. Also, most people who are pressed to prematurely replace their stove will choose the cheapest option, which if pushed away from gas would be resistive electric not induction.
Most of your comment is about what you think I think, and not a lot about metrics, data or examples where Ruby performs beyond my interpretation. I think that says a lot right there.
AGPL cloud service would circumvent this issue rather than relying purely on strong leadership and company DNA.
There's an entire 12V electrical system which stays active. There's also rubber and plastic parts, possible contaminants, a bevy of additives...plenty of interesting chemistry which normally does nothing but in the right sequence of unlikely events leads to an ignition.
At my startup we had people track time on ‘real’ work tasks and found that four hours was about the max anyone could (happily and productively) do each day, which was fairly consistent across roles as well.
"Formal reasoning" or "logic" as you suggest is a model for finding "truth" from static inputs and simple operations. However, if the inputs are random variables (they have an associated distribution) then so (likely) are the outputs, and "truth" is still a random variable. The world we live in is better modeled by the latter than the former, and as such the "decision tree" approach of AI seems like a more reasonable approach and model to finding "truth" than a strictly mathematical approach.
Bullshit company in a bullshit industry...
Progressives Need to Get Real on Housing
My brain just loves reduction and homogeneity and sexps / fp hits very high on this. It's like vector math, the building blocks are simple, the rest is on you.

And at the same time, I also remember enjoying the 'magic' of php array/map syntax .. it felt magical (thanks to dynamic loosely typed semantics too I guess). But rapidly you hit syntactic hurdles that just don't exist in function based languages.

Then there are tribal effects, when a bunch of guys work in python or else, they'll love it, and resist anything too alien (even if .. under the clothes, it's mostly a limited common lisp :)
I have a half assembled Trident on a table behind me right now. Like you, I greatly value open source. I didn't realize at the time I ordered the Trident that the Mk4 firmware was non-free, but Prusa didn't make the final cut regardless. In my mind, Prusa hasn't been showing enough innovation. The bed-slinging Mk4 coming out at the price it did against CoreXY printers like Voron and Bambu was like bringing a knife to a gunfight. Their new extruder is nice but not enough.

I've been really impressed by the Voron community as well. I've found them very helpful and supportive, and the creativity here is amazing. The long list of mods is also impressive: some are incredibly useful and some are more fun than anything else. I understand that a lot of people just want a box to show up at their door that they can plug in and start printing with. Those folks should buy a Bambu. For everyone else, there's Voron.
Just let people have stoves.

I’ve noticed these types of “shade” articles that are strange and boring that an org like NPR dedicates people’s time to writing this.

The goal isn’t to eliminate gas stoves. They don’t matter. It seems strange that anyone cares whether I have natural gas for stoves or not.
Periodex – periodic table of elements with nice UI
It need not be, but once these features are developed they almost certainly become mandatory, proprietary, and predatory.
At the limit, and with dubious meaning “generated by AI or digital tools”; all image media will be dubious shortly. All intellectual pieces around culture will be dubious. All political media will be dubious. I expect this to be in a very short time but could be wrong.

And of course a child will say “and what’s dubious, that’s how it is” and so I become old and don’t understand anything anymore.
oh super pretty
AI Coscientist automates scientific discovery
Grow a forest, convert the wood into charcoal, then store it in a salt mine.
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