skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For this specific case it's a bit less clear because the house has been extended significantly and so the ground floor floor plan is no longer L-shaped, but if you check the floor plan for the first floor (UK terminology) you can see that the rear-facing square-shaped bedroom has a window facing into the garden, making the overall floor plan an L. The shared walls with the neighbours match up about with the second floor floor plan's extreme left and right edges.

The original design on these Victorian terraces is typically an L shape, where the upright of the L had the kitchen in it, and the base of the L is the main block of the house. This allows the room at the back of the main block to have a window facing back into the garden for light. Many have subsequently been extended for extra space and to add bathrooms, which were not originally present. Partially or completely filling in the corner of the L is popular.
Just wait until AI-powered android in the real world. We only need the movements to be simulated properly, the speech is already there.
> And it's why the Chinese have put on only token efforts.

China's got two rovers up there, returned 1.7kg of moon rocks in 2020, has another sample return scheduled this year, and another rover in 2026.
Yeah and it reads like a blog post and not encyclopedic. Stuff like this sentence:

> Aside from its low hardware specification, perhaps the biggest perceived "design flaw" of the IBM PC was the what is nowadays called Upper Memory Area [...]

IDK what the correct wikipedia response to that would be but probably citation required and NPOV. It could be made more neutral by rephrasing just to "The IBM PC architecture located I/O pages at the top of memory, limiting available RAM to 640 KiB. Alternatives such as the Victor located I/O pages at the start of memory allowing for 800-900 KiB of RAM". Let the reader come to the conclusion that they did this to try to improve the architecture, and don't assert that those architecture choices were qualitatively better, don't assert any opinions.

It just sounds like the author is pleading a bit for the reader to see that other alternatives made qualitatively better choices.
Yeah. But they entirely reversed that part and also the new fees/royalty scheme is perfectly reasonable cost wise

> A higher but predictable percentage of sales can be appealing compared to that.

Well again the current model is basically identical to Unreal (besides the per seat license) just considerably cheaper.

Of course the real issue is that they believed that they could actually pull that off in the first place and the trust issue stemming from that. At least they got rod off Riccitelo but AFAIK most the of remaining (extremely incompetent) upper management team is still there..
Workers in the valley have been making real money in the startup lottery (not fabulous wealth but real money in the retire-by-50 sense) since Intel and HP were formed in the very early 1970s; let alone Microsoft, Sun, SGI and others in the early 80s. By the mid-80s it wasn't rare at all (Cisco, for one of many).
Considering it has happened time and time again, and this latest one happens just by changing the UA… yes.

If it looks like a banana, shaped like a banana, feels like a banana, it’s probably a banana (or a plantain).
Sigh, I need this a few week ago ;)...I just replaced my failed gas fired furnace with a Fujitsu XLTH 3 ton ducted mini split in the Fraser Valley (Mission BC).

I only got 2 quotes (and spoke with a third, but not quoted beyond ballpark). I ended up going with the local installer (which was the lowest, but I also worked with them on the furnace and liked them anyways).

It ended up being 20k CAD installed. If we're approved for all of our rebates (likely) we'll get 11k CAD back for a net of 9k which isn't too bad.

Our unit is supposed to be rated for 110% of heating capacity at -15c. We'll see , it's supposed to drop to -8c or so later this week :) We're looking forward to having cooling this summer (which we've never had)
You can't throw a stone in America without hitting a government contractor. Doing work for the government and getting paid for it doesn't disqualify them as being a private company. The government isn't an investor, they've paid the company for services.

Or do you think that if I pay a plumber to install a toilet, I've now invested in his plumbing business?
You can actually find this rather rapidly through Wikipedia.

In fact, you can identify the exact moment when the news about the death leaked, when the first editor adds it to the article. Generally, experienced editors will keep it out until a reliable source is provided, which typically happens quite quickly.

In fact I've found out about a number of celebrity deaths, just by having them on my watchlist.
Firefox had 30% market share in 2011, the article links to the discussion about when google chrome first released. The article discusses how this behavior ate away at the market share every time google released something that worked on google chrome, and broken on firefox. And as a result over the years, now firefox has a 3% market share as you say.
I believe a JIT using this technique could eliminate dead code at the Python bytecode level, but not at the machine code level. That seems pretty reasonable to me.
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Thanks for the clarification.

Unfortunately, "it didn't work this time" does not translate to "it doesn't work" or even "they didn't try it."

Manipulation - or preference shifting if you prefer - is not a binary thing. It's entirely possible to shift preferences (even significantly) but not shift them enough to win.
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You two might not be disagreeing.

America can absolutely lose out on low-cost parts while increasing its manufacturing base. It's an insanely large field.
I know there are makerspaces that exist to help people prototype and start a product business until they reach a good size for batch manufacturing.

There’s one near me in South Carolina called Synergy Mill and I believe it’s an MIT Fab Lab?
Its even more than that; easily half to three-quarters of my gaming these days is on cloud gaming so I'm not even installing any content.

But in the end, that's not the same as my cloud storage where I'm being metered by my bytes.
"Show me the incentives and ill show you the outcome". That is more or less what you are saying, but I don't know why you would preclude the possibility of a deliberate strategy in achieving those ends.
They don't break their site for Firefox users for starters :)

I do say this as somewhat of a joke, but that's for me a real reason. It's not the first time Google has intentionally screwed over Firefox users.

Even if we believe what they say every time it happens: it's "just a bug". For me it clearly signals they simply don't care. And that's the best case scenario. Worst case they're abusing their market position to drive out competition.

Even if DDG serves requests from MS servers, that's not even close to opting into the Google surveillance machine.

Finally, if what you said holds true about serving basically the same content, then the hostility against Firefox and the fact that you won't be helping this monopoly should already make it "better".
> Youtube on firefox has been broken since they started their ad-blocker brigade.

I use Youtube in Firefox daily, even in Strict mode with many user.js tweaks, and have never had a problem.

> The UI has become sluggish and 'pause-y'.

Get a faster computer.
Ah, yea I had a similar experience with Extra Fine. Now I buy them through Nibs.com which does some custom grinding, also they take into account my Leftyness, which makes for an extremely smooth and wet write.
Re StumbleUpon: you might be interested in the "random page" feature of wiby.me: https://wiby.me/surprise/
I'd suppose it's a reference to rich people having far more influence on public and economic policy than the working class, and those policies in turn having a substantial effect both on how people interact and who has money, especially when examined over a decades-long time horizon.
I’ll do my best but I wont pretend to be the best person to talk about this.

The world we inhabit (and by we I mean most of us who are workers and make a living by selling our labor) isn’t really for us. We are cogs in the machine that is essentially propping up the lifestyle of the capitalist class. The world is for them. Those of us here on Hacker News are closer to being human than say a Janitor and our status affords us more luxuries but we are still just machines even if some of us might become human.

To mitigate the risk of the workers taking too much power there has been a lot of effort spent atomizing workers and smashing unions over the years. Combine that with social media that seems to have the (probably unintentional) side effect of making us all hate each other we dont tend to have many friends these days.

Money is more obviously just stolen from us by the capital owning class. Directly through government intervention and wage theft, and more subtly through what Marx calls surplus value.
I think where you're missing is that all those "services" in the so called "service economy" exist to make the "real economy" more productive.

If services have settled upon "Use China for Manufacturing", instead of ya know, building better manufacturing centers or figuring out training programs or other such advancements, then the economy has failed us.

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The only way this so called "advanced service economy" actually benefits America is if we create better products, better research, better designs and make due with fewer workers on a realistic level.

If we're just sending money overseas its obviously a loss in the long run.

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USA's manufacturing prowess is still there btw. It took advanced computers, chemicals, and life-sciences to develop the COVID19 vaccines (and the updates to said vaccines) so quickly. China has seemingly been unable to replicate the feat.

But in _specifically_ electronics, China has pulled far ahead of us. I think USA wins in chemical and energy sciences for the most part. (China getting a big lead on LiFePo4 though).

At some point, we need to think and look hard upon ourselves and self-reflect. Why is our service economy unable to replicate the advanced designs and advanced factories that China can so easily stamp out?

We're supposed to have better software. We're supposed to have better engineers and better design services. But at the end of the day, China out-manufactures us in the realm of electronics. Thinking and reflecting upon this, as well as the nature of service economies and what our "services" and "advanced economy" is supposed to accomplish is key.
> Non-nationals may not be able to do certain types of transactions like opening a bank account at many banks.

Although many banks in the US can't be bothered to do KYC for non-residents, some certainly allow it. I've done it myself.

Outside the US, opening an account as a non-citizen is very common and usually not a problem at all. In the EU, it would even be illegal to only accept citizens as customers.
> Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE

Why not send it by plane ?
Siting, of course, is the other big factor. I assume the project developer has priced this in and judged this project to be at least profitable, so you might assume they have good wind.
Ask HN: Would you pay for a test suite?
I was thinking about sustainable open source development recently, and got the idea of selling the test suite. Basically, tests are a value add that you can pay for if you need it.

For example, if an org wants to modify an open source project in order to adapt it to their specific requirements, having access to a high quality test suite is going to be very valuable.

Additionally, since someone is paying for the tests, it would incentivize the open source developer to create higher quality tests, which in turn leads to higher quality software. It's a positive feedback loop!

Anybody can still use the software without having access to the test suite, and will still benefit from the existence of the tests since stable releases will have been tested.

There could also be different test tiers. Like some core functionality tests are free, but integration tests with important third party services/libs require a subscription. This could be different from a regular support contract, since it'd be more like a typical software licensing situation. Just pay $X/mo for access to the test repo, a CI/CD service, etc with no other commitments from the developer(s).

Is there a flaw in this idea? Would you pay for (or convince your employer to pay for) a test suite?
Is my plane a 737 MAX?
I thought about this! An old iPad also wouldn’t have to be rooted to show a website.

But ultimately I wanted something that could be in a bedroom without glowing at night, which e-ink felt better suited for.
> armchair experts

I'm more of a standing desk one right now.
For one, that "deprioritize a competitor" is not clear at all. Why would that be so? Isn't it far more likely, given the rarity of these events, that a test regression occurred or some other subtle issue rather than assumed malfeasance?

For two, that "next update in 12 hours" is user comms. For me, at least, google.com works fine both on curl and my browser. That's a fairly normal cadence for big companies.

On the larger point about "nimble and deploying rapidly", the people who generally brag about "being nimble and deploying rapidly" almost never serve an even 1/100th the audience the size of Google.com does, and it's really questionable if, at that scale, you actually want to risk global regressions even on trivial bugs.

So I don't know what that user is talking about, and I agree with you that they are obviously not that.

That approach may be antithetical to the modern startup engineer frantic to prove their stock's hypothetical worth to their investors, unconcerned about trivial revenue loss from frontpage issues because of whatever latest node.js drama nuked their continuously deployed website. But the fact that "the landing search page is broken for 1% of users in a rare but public use case" is news at all is because Google's approach for search sets our expectations that this won't happen.
It's definitely AB's lander. That's the whole purpose of the CLPS contract that NASA used to pay for it. I'm on another NASA team that is "customer" of AB's for their Griffin lander. The degree to which AB's product is a black box to us is quite frustrating.
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Reminds me of David K who is local to me in Florida, or was, last I spoke to him. He has been a Finite State Machine advocate for ages, and its a well known concept, but you'd be surprised how useful they can be. He pushes it for front-end a lot, and even implemented a Tic Tac Toe sample using it.

https://twitter.com/DavidKPiano
Yea, the out of box smoothness of the VP leaves a lot to be desired, I've been getting them from Nibs.com which smooths it nicely for me.
Modern KYC should rely on cryptographically secure eID. For example, in Russia you can’t even buy a e-sim online without a cryptographic signature connected to your eID that you can only create if you prove your identity offline. No photoshop or GenAI can overcome that.
I guess you are the perfectly average human then. I am not so lucky.

I have `s` to search sourcegraph.com, DDG has !sg. `t` to use Google Translate, DDG has !gt, `i` to search IMDB, DDG has !imd or !imdb, v to search animated images, DDG has !gif, `ni` to search nixpkgs issues which DDG doesn't have (although they do have one for the nix repo at !nr which is pretty impressive. I use `nc` for this). Not to mention personalized shortcuts like searching my company's GitHub organization or JIRA tickets that would never be a public bang, much less have a 2 character shortcut.

I stopped there but it is clear to me that I benefit from making my own short aliases for the searches that I use most. Plus it is nice to not send my logs to a third party and get improved performance.
In January 2024, OpenWater made its revolutionary technology open source, which could be the basis for new, non-invasive BCI devices. I think this announcement is one of the most important tech events of 2024. A short article about the technology.
what are the products called? I am interested in learning about the marketing and build journey
Berkeley Unified Parallel C
In iOS Safari you can then long-click the reader icon to jump out of reader mode on the current page.

If you want to make it permanent for that domain, you click the Reader icon -> Web page settings -> Disable automatic reader view.
No the plan is specifically to leave them on the surface of the moon. See https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/05/world/peregrine-moon-mission-....

Multiple private companies today are offering such "moon burials".
The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation of the Transavia AirTruk
Same with origin, guess it's considered a nuisance and I need more filters (also Firefox)
I think people are downvoting you because of the way you delivered the message rather than the content of the message.

As I've gotten older, I've realized it is actually more healthy to view professional contacts in this manner (but not necessarily family). It helps compartmentalize their behavior (which is intrinsically self-motivated) to just being "how the game is played".
70s.
APL-like interpreter in Rust: algae 01 [video]
Doesn't change parent's point, clearly proves it's possible
The value comes into play when I need that saw at 2 AM on a Sunday morning. The one in my toolbox is a LOT more valuable than the one at the hackerspace.
Do you have any specific examples of that from these specific people? I feel like you're arguing a point that nobody tried to make.
Really the original “silicon” boom was in the 60s with fairchild et al. 60+ years of this
This could be a nice monthly HN post like the who’s hiring / who wants to be hired ones.

“What blogs did you post to in the last month?”
IMO it's dirty pool for Apple to advertise their products as waterproof (IP68) and then even if a drop of water gets on the external case, they will refuse to honor the warranty, even if the water has nothing to do with the problem.

They don't even want to perform out of warranty, paid repairs if any of the liquid sensors are tripped. A few years back I had an MBP that the battery had worn out on, but several years before, I had spilled some water on the keyboard. The computer was none the worse for wear -- I dried it out quickly and it was fine, but when the battery wore out and I wanted it replaced, they wanted me to pay $1500 for a new motherboard before they would be willing to replace the battery.
Yes.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/wind-resource-assessment-an...

https://windexchange.energy.gov/states/nm#maps
Im sick of the "capitalism sucks" undercurrent here.

1. Show me the system proven to be "better". The one you're willing to live under. Take your time I'll wait.

2. Even in capitalism you have choice. Go work for a union shop. Go work for a collective ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation ). If you dont like those, start your own company.

I feel like this article is targeting a generation... Its message is mixed, but the conclusion is spot on. You need money, friends, and a thick skin/patience (and all that is hard work, on top of your job).
> most indies

True. But I wasn’t really talking about indies (or not only them anyway).

Also the Unity fee/royalty thing doesn’t kick in below 1 million $ AND users, and above that is somewhere between 0.1% and 2.5% depending on your revenue per user (and also is likely negotiable).
When I bought the house, it already had floor heating across the entire plan... but from what I see, it's not that hard to DIY if you're so inclined. Specially with floors like are typical in Sweden, it's like laminated flat boards that are easy to replace: https://www.bauhaus.se/hpl-laminatgolv-berryalloc-ek-vitolja...

It looks pretty good too... you need to do some cutouts for the warming pipes underneath, there's lots of Youtube videos showing how :D

But luckily, my floor heating apparently is still in very good condition so it will be a while before I have to replace that.
I had the same thought. Unfortunately, I think males are the ones in an epidemic of loneliness. Girls have easy options for immediate companionship - just jump on any dating app and swipe right once. That said, it’s the same guys hooking up with pretty much all the girls so certainly they are also desiring deeper, real connection.

Anyway. Good idea, but no way I’m messaging this thing on Telegram.
You forgot the </sarcasm>
Google's strategy for search ux is decidedly not "nimble and rapid" and I don't understand why anyone with first hand knowledge would ever suggest that.
On Road Rash for Megadrive/Genesis, there's a patch for all the games allowing you to play the games with a much better frame rate.

You don't need any overclocked emulator, patch, plug and play.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Élan the SC4xx series _did_ have "PC/AT peripheral controllers".
Not surprising given their behavior. Intel stopped innovating around the time ryzen came out. Ryzen itself was an innovation. When was the last time Samsung innovated anything? Quantum dots are a revolution but not related to chips.
This works great when you live in a big city and have a choice of several banks with branches (and even then, you'll probably pay a higher interest rate due to decreased competition of lenders).
The aim was to lay out at which level each stage happens. It's not middle management taking a random decision. The fish rots from the head but the tail certainly doesn't smell rosy either. Dieselgate was also just a random deprioritized code bug until it wasn't.

Repeated incompetence from one level is actual maliciousness from the level above, all the way to the top.
>Nitpicking a bit, but Gell-Mann amnesia isn't that.

Hence "corollary to"...
Also earlier HN post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38921618
The more you think about it, the more it makes sense to harness geothermal. A big breakthrough there could benefit our environment more than any other tech, except fusion.
Resiliience is good, but it barely pays the bills.

People don't get rich with resilience, but by charisma, family support, genetic lottery, connections, friends, and opportunities.

Resilience and ingenuity are cool too, but there are tons of resilient and ingenius people that never make it. And there are extremely resilient single mothers working 2 jobs and making ends meet without complaining. But that doesn't get them any success.
Had to search for Space Harrier and was glad to find it in there. Well done!