skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The article tries to articulate the value add through attention to detail in manufacturing "so the bags survive 6 years of rough and tumble"

I don't think it does. The emphasis is on being a hand crafted item:

> A randoseru can have up to 200 die cut parts and polyurethane back plates, and are mostly assembled by hand, making it an expensive item to produce.

It even says that cheaper bags are even better:

> Unlike the randoseru, these cost a much more affordable 8,000 yen (57 USD), are lighter, and just as durable.
Why shouldn't the unexperienced systems programmers go "all in" by using Rust, then? The first priority for them should be memory safety. Not to mention that Rust has more ergonomic features and stronger ecosystems.
> 3^2.5, what does it mean to say "multiply 3 by itself 2.5 times?"

It means 3 · 3 · √3. If you write the exponent in binary, you can approximate any such power as a product of various repeated square roots.

> how the heck they worked out these log values in the beginning

If you're really curious about the very beginning, here's an English translation of Briggs's (1624) book: https://17centurymaths.com/contents/albriggs.html

And here are English translation of Napier's (1614, 1619) books: https://17centurymaths.com/contents/napiercontents.html
We also had a bunch of text books in German school, but much cheaper backpacks were able to carry them.

(And, you could also just 'forget' your textbook, and nothing really happened.)
Wikipedia's article on randoseru[1] states:

A new randoseru made of genuine or synthetic leather can carry a price tag of around 30,000–40,000 yen at a chain store/supermarket. Typically randoseru from department stores or traditional workshops will be priced in the region of 55,000–70,000 yen, with some models (particularly those branded with logos) reaching over 100,000 yen. Clarino, a synthetic material frequently used as a substitute, reduces the cost somewhat. Often randoseru are available on auction sites in new or used condition at much lower prices, particularly after the start of the Japanese school year in April. As of January 2012, the five top randoseru in order of popularity at Amazon.co.jp are in the range of ¥8,280–¥16,980 yen.

Translating those numbers to US dollars and rounding a bit, we get:

New one at the supermarket: US$ 210-280

Department store or traditional workshop: US$ 390-400

Prestigious logo: $700

Most popular on Amazon.co.jp back in 2012: US$ 60-120.

What the distribution of sales are between those $60 bags and those $700 bags is, and how much shit a kid carrying a $60 bag will get from the kids carrying the pricier ones, I dunno. It certainly seems that Mr. and Mrs. One-From-Nippon are definitely looking at some upscale-ass randoseru though.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randoseru
Yep! Great comment. I certainly agree that if someone was looking for a language that does "simplicity" as an ideological thing, grouping stuff together that way would absolutely make sense. I suspect, in the same way that you reach for that comparison initially, I also do not, because I don't particularly enjoy that framing of programming languages. We truly are all the products of our own experience and biases.
Another way to frame this is - Disney has decided to not extend the copyright laws for all Americans and let this happen.

The damage of the multiple extensions the company has already forced on all of us are devastating.

Multiple times Disney has changed the law to extend copyright provisions and allow it and other corporations to take without giving back, siphoning value out of the public domain for decades upon decades.

We have paid a hefty price for their profits, over and over again.
Technical innovation in metallurgy plays a significant role. It's easy to say that things are a distraction, but it's also only true in retrospect, unless you're on a spectrum of Turing award winners or the like.

It's not clear to me whether you meant "pivot" or "pilot" but the downstream effect is likely the same. Trying to account for divestitures and acquisitions in such a large corporation is a fool's gold of forensic accounting. Just because the business wasn't more transparent than their incorporation required doesn't mean that they weren't thinking broadly and deeply about the future of their core business.
I'm constantly scratching an itch to use it in a project, has anyone done so at any level of scale?
For the more expensive, higher quality items you also have to factor in the probability that your kid might lose them.
In my view that is not something a government does

And I don't believe that progress happens by us imagining a rule toward a more perfect society and then government following to enact it
What does "Nvidia AI Lead" even mean? BTW the post looks like generated by ChatGPT.
There's four groups of people here:

- "Apple's target demographic". People like my parents, who just know "Open Messages to text people" and don't understand that Apple basically slid themselves in between every iPhone-to-iPhone text conversation

- "BMW drivers". Extremely vain people looking for ways to not talk to the poors, who are angry that any sort of fix to this problem would decrease their ability to be classist assholes. Classholes.

- "Android users stuck in iPhone families". People angry that their iPhone using friends keep texting them "Liked an image" and then asking why the images they texted them look like ass. Me.

- "Whatsapp's data suppository". Western Europeans who would much rather the Americans just shut up and go away[0]. Green bubbles cost them so much money (because European carriers are horrible scum of the earth) that they all migrated to Whatsapp way before iMessage got any traction in Europe.

Of course they're all going to have different opinions. We will not 'make up our mind' and it is downright insulting that you demand we make up one opinion with four minds.

[0] Which seems to be the argument for a lot of other things America likes, like human rights, immigration, freedom of speech, and more generally, liberal democracy.
Certainly not, and I don't mean to speak for you.

But lets just say that I exist within the FANG dystopia where at any moment I can be wrangled into a meeting with a half dozen people, that if you actually consider the salaries, headcount, and time, racks up to hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars burned. For the takeaway that the modal should be fullscreen, or that we are dramatically adjusting our "design system", or whatever may have been so mission critical. Real tangible goods.

But perhaps what I do is worth more, I mean, we are talkin' computers here! we are the true craftsmen!
Any arc source is vastly more destructive with DC. That makes switching and circuit protection more difficult/expensive.

AC helps you because the voltage crosses zero twice every cycle so normal voltages don't tend to be sufficient to sustain much of an arc in air. Every time you flip a switch you cause an arc, but the same DC voltage eats up the contacts more quickly. Even silly things like unplugging a running appliance does way more damage to the receptacle and the plug under a DC load.
> Solar cells' output varies greatly, hence it needs to be DC/DC converted to a fix voltage to be of any use.

This is simply wrong. It is true that modern MPPT solar regulators use PWM to extract the maximum power, but for years, a simple on/off regulator was used to prevent overcharging.

The reality is that a solar panel is essentially a "Constant Current" supply, so the panel puts out the same current over a wide range of battery voltages. It is the battery which puts out a Constant Voltage at whatever current the load requires.
Internet, Blockchain, AI, Amara's Law and the Gartner Hype Cycle
Amara’s Law (coined by Roy Amara, scientist, futurist and President of the Institute of the Future) is:

“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”

This is true for game changers such as Internet, Blockchain & AI. Some hyped technologies never make it through all five phases of the Gartner hype cycle:

1 Technology Trigger

2 Peak of Inflated Expectations

3 Trough of Disillusionment

4 Slope of Enlightenment

5 Plateau of Productivity

So it is possible that Blockchain & AI never make it big in the real world. The Internet has clearly made through all five phases. However I believe that Amara’s Law will also be true for both Blockchain & AI. While Blockchain is clearly deep in the Trough of Disillusionment, AI might be just starting that journey after spending 2023 at the Peak of Inflated Expectations.

What do you think?
How to forget what you read
This model ends up with a sort of db-per-user/team model no?

My questions are around that. Are there good solutions for migrations? Has anyone made it relatively easy to handle in terms of deploy/scale/manage?
The sites I am most likely to exclude are the most ad infested. Seems a direct conflict with the bottom line to only show high quality content.
The author wrongly attributes 'rucksack' to Dutch. The Dutch is actually 'rugzak', which is based on the mentioned German word (Deutsch confusion?).
Yes, though many systems make a distinction between fixed objects (like level geometry) and moveable stuff.

If you are inside the bubble, you can disable collision with the fixed objects, and only check for the moveables.

In old-school terms that's background vs sprites.
In terms of performance and features I find it to be way better than chrome. Can't get vertical tabs on chrome and also it's much better about freeing up RAM from suspended tabs.
My understanding is that people in the middle ages didn't work more than most people do now. In particular because there are stretches of the year (e.g. winter) when a farmer has significantly less work to do.
Energy density is one major fact the EV propagandists don't get. What they get is policies and mandates to work for their cause.
I used to pirate everything and then Spotify came along, since Spotify I have not pirated once. I’ve used it almost every day for over 10 years. I listen to much more diverse music now. This experience is commonplace. I would say completely changing how a generation consumes music is innovative.
If I have to guess, support & engineering would be the main force behind LEDs.

For example, you have USB port in the bed base, and it does not charge the cellphone, so you call tech support. With LED, it's simple. LED on -> "verify the USB port is not bent or damaged, check your cable, check your cellphone"; LED off -> "verify bed is plugged in, verify outlet has power". Without it? Much harder, especially if you are talking over the phone to non-technical person who does not follow the instructions.

(I made a number of one-off home devices for my own use and there is almost always an indicator LED of some sort. Combined activity/power if I can make one, or at least a power one if it's impossible. Some of them are blue, because blue is a nice color and needs really low current to be visible)
I was. But looks like I just needed to update the theme. Fixed now!
FWIW...

$ echo "Google Analytics sets cookies that store anonymised information about how you got to the site, the blog pages you visit, how long you spend on each page and what you click on while you're visiting the site." | wc
1 37 207
wow how long did this take you?
Oh like in path tracing.
Does it go towards some kind of features/cost/popularity comparison?
Small NP-hard problems aren't actually that bad. You can usually formulate them as eg a integer programming problem or a SMT problem, and throw an off-the-shelf solver at them.

You only need to learn the solver once, and you can re-use it for all kinds of problems. (Assuming that your instances don't have to be solved with low latency. Eg only as part of your level generation process, or at most when loading a randomly generated level, but not every frame or so.)

https://developers.google.com/optimization has a decent collection of tools.
My search nodes were tuples of position, direction, and steps taken in the same direction.

More or less a straight depth first search with a priority queue from there.
https://archive.is/RgDWk
Most grid-tie systems use multiple solar panels wired in series to give the high voltage DC needed to simplify the conversion to Mains AC.
I think Laravel Spark would fit in well with this list: https://spark.laravel.com/
That's nifty, because A* itself is already a two-step process that uses a heuristic. You can blow it up to multiple steps fairly easily.
Genuine question: what do you mean by ‘daily coding’?

I certainly find C acceptable, if not compelling, for doing widely portable, memory and speed sensitive software engineering, but that is not what I would typically associate with ‘daily coding’ tasks. I would normally use that term to signal thing like data, task, and OS automations (i.e. scripting, command line convenience apps, text/binary file compression/search/reorganization).

Not knocking your answer, just trying to get your intended meaning to evaluate whether I agree with the particular use case as a fit for a language as minimal and manual as C.
Autism is not a disease. Nor is wearing an animal costume as a hobby.

Also, we probably shouldn't call it Aspergers, because naming something you are after the person the Nazis hired to decide whether or not you needed to be 'healed' of it[0][1] is kind of... really terrible? Like, I don't know how we let Hans Asperger get away with this shit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Asperger#World_War_II_(19...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am_Spiegelgrund_clinic
I believe long sentences become progressively more difficult to comprehend due to the general limits of short term memory, the so called “chunks”, they’re more or less even among the population, not showing much variance. Cognitive deficits further complicates the matter. As someone with such deficits I very much appreciate fragmented texts. As a matter of fact I was easily able to read this entire article. It must be noted that as important as keeping sentences short, at least on the web, it is important to space the paragraphs as well, if accessibility is the goal.
You definitely shouldn't rely on it.

But you should use it.
Costco is amazing but their ecomm experience leaves a bit to be desired.
12v is perfectly reasonable for lighting, fans and water pumps.
I've never had an issue either. I'd bet most people don't.
Sure, you can imagine it, but people are gonna want it.

I mean, unless you want a generation of kids raised by robots and we expunge all records of private ownership from the historical record so the new generation doesn't get ideas.

"I want to live there, on the coast." What does this society do about that? Really explore this concept, don't just wave it off.

People are going to want things and not everyone will get them. And they'll invent ways to try to get what they want. And that'll be the re-invention of work.
daily job is all c and c++ and Zig is something I need find time to get good at weekends and nothing critical for immediate needs, but yes I'm interested.
He's old. This reinforces his power as he ages. It's selfish behaviour which betrays a lack of interest in the long-term polity.

The mark of a true statesman is being able to retire. I can understand not wanting to, but I have a strong belief Xi is unable to contemplate it, because of the chaos which would stem from his own decisions.

Not unlike his northern neighbour in that regard.
My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022)
Happy New Year! It is so nice to have a community with whom to share and discuss technology topics. I work in medicine, as does my wife, and my colleagues all seem to be allergic to computers and have little to contribute to my nerdy interests. Having somewhere to find new (and old) thoughtful posts and comments about programming, reverse engineering, security, and economics has been so uplifting! Many thanks to all the contributors and moderator(s? Is it just dang?) who make it possible!
Little bacterium may make big impact on rare-earth processing
it reads as "buy NVDA stock", a person working for nvidia trying to hype it as much as possible
> those states aren’t subsidizing, the federal government is

This is accounting. The production of one provides for the other.

> California is granted more than it pays in

Whoops, my bad. New York and New Jersey, then.

> Tennessee model works because they don’t spend as much money, so they tax less

This is part of the story. Without those other states wealth redustribution, Tennessee would have to tax more or provide less.
I've been working on a system for systematically applying migrations to SQLite databases here, inspired (a bit) by how Django migrations work: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-migrate

I've used it in a few places myself, but I've not yet released a non-beta version of it. I'm close to having the confidence to say other people should use it too!
I’ve never seen a ticket system migration keep links alive. I’m sure there are professional IT centric orgs out there that prioritize this, but in my experience, the version history (master branch) is what’s kept in practice, to keep migration cost down. Git blame is the best you can hope for, long-term.
A Hands-On Introduction to Machine Learning by Chirag Shah is a great starting point IMO.
A Watch That Runs for over a Decade on a Single Battery New MEMS Tech Fro
Google to Layoff 30k
Nobody made any claims about the best way to do anything. You appear to have constructed a strawman.
That's right. It's been a problem in war for decades.

I'm happy to see a return to the defensive survival evacuation and triage role for AI, CV, and robotics as opposed to the regression from that role into autonomous killing machines.

Building an Alan Alda MASH persona along with supporting performers and portrayers is not a bad idea, even if the dragging on the sled requires much less intelligence save for the head-banging of the injured that's tough to avoid and manage.
There seems to be research saying so. - -
https://google.com/search?q=DEI+ROI
> agricultural water comes from the central valley aquifer system which is being pumped much faster than it is replenished

Sure. They’re still wasting the water.

> more population in permanent settlements won't help mitigate the problem

It also won’t meaningfully worsen it. Water is simply not a real barrier to development in California.
The word "fundamental" here probably has the same meaning as "elementary" as in elementary mathematics, i.e. something you should absolutely understand first, not something that makes up everything else.
We call them patches for a reason. Those patches change the code.

In essence, I think of commits as edges in a graph between nodes, and the nodes are the repo state.

So to me, commits are a state transition; this is why they do something to the code, at least to me.
https://github.com/html5-ninja/page-replica/blob/main/api.js...

This code base has the most useful comments ever, are these normally accepted? Enforced? Adding stuff that has no value, but needs to be mantained and updated when code changes without the ability for it to be validated by compilers or parsers?
Nothing but greed will break if it becomes 3 years. On the contrary, IMO this will actually considerably reduce piracy, because things entering public domain would be something one can wait for. You either go to a cinema to see the hot new movie right now, or you see it legally for free in 3 years.
The point is displacement doesn’t necessarily destroy nations. Murder necessarily kills. Forced displacement is a war crime. It isn’t genocide.

I’ll go one step further and argue that this sort of bombastic rhetoric hurts the pro-Palestinian cause.
This works for DuckDuckGo along with several other search engines listed on their Readme. I suggest using SearXNG instead as DuckDuckGo is also a problem now: https://www.wired.com/story/duckduckgo-microsoft-twitter-ft-...
I'm surprised the USPS doesn't offer email addresses. Seems pretty in line with what they do.
If you give your kids unrestricted access to a gun they can shoot themselves.

Why should minors be allowed on the internet unsupervised at all?
That’s kind of like telling people not to go online because you can’t believe everything you read on the Internet.

What proportion of the problems you’ve encountered were with the free version vs premium? It’s a huge difference and the topic here is GPT4.

Also since it is fairly common for you are there any real world examples you can share?
Yeah. I think it's disingenuous to talk about breaking things for users, as though people are forced to use a newer language standard.

C99 "broke" implicit declarations, but few if any people were forced to use C99 and it never became the default in, say, GCC (-std=gnu11 became the default in GCC 5.5, released in 2017).
It works with DuckDuckGo as well. I like the privacy focus of DuckDuckGo but it doesn't seem much better than Google when it comes to promoting garbage sites like slant.co over information written by a well informed human being.
Comrak on Akkoma
I think there's a real problem with adverse selection in our media environment, whereby outlier polls attract more attention and end up driving discourse and policy making, but are most often noise.
Why should the first priority be memory safety? If the first priority is always memory safety, then rust should not have `unsafe` keyword. Existence of `unsafe` implies that, even rust, something is more important than safety

And, maybe rust is a poor choice because the language encourages layering hidden complexity and architecture astronauting.
Stitching-related zipper failure, or the zipper itself?

I feel like stitching in general is where Jansports fail first.... you have to abuse them pretty hard to wear out the material or bust a zipper directly, but the stitching on Jansports is not amazing.

Don't get me wrong... the price/performance/durability of Jansports is INSANE

but they maybe are venerated a little too hard
Also by the same author: LiteFS[0]

The difference is that LiteFS is meant for high availability and low global latency, whilst Litestream is designed for disaster recovery.

[0] https://github.com/superfly/litefs
> what the English call "keeping up appearances". It seems Japanese call it "tatemae"

Definitely not the same, unless I don’t understand the English usage (I’m American, but I’ve spent a lot of time around Brits and British English).

Tatemae can run deep in complexity and nuance.
I prefer to go the other way. Put the commit ID(s) and/or links in the ticketing system as part of ticket comments. Now if the ticket system changes or is exported to another system the commit ID(s) will still be in the record. They are much less likely to change plus you can have multiple commits for an issue.
How good is your understanding of crofting | farming pre the modern age?

Is your comment based on, for example, "no crops in winter therefore no work"?

Where did middle ages farmers get cloth, rope, fabric, soaps, tool handles, thatch, etc. from?

Sure, there were high quality wheels, barrels, buckets, etc from dedicated specialists but with high demand farms had to produce a number of their own workable versions.

It's true that one doesn't have to work to excess in order to survive, it's also true that working to live well requires pretty steady work the year round, if not one job then there's always another.
Strongly agree. If people want to listen to non-French songs to the point where the government needs to legislate a minimum, who is actually benefiting?
I haven’t looked into your example, but certainly it can be true that lowercasing can be harmful. It goes without saying, I think, that the SE policy is only to lowercase words when doing so doesn’t harm.

When I see erroneous changes in SE books, I argue to revert, and have generally been successful. In my experience it’s drama‐free, like fixing any other typo.
Statistically speaking it’s probably true. The fact that you’re friends with them is evidence that they have friends.

See “friendship paradox”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox