skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I extensively use org mode, I didn't follow the GP's approach precisely because of this searchability problem. These days, however, vector DBs and doing RAG is getting close to changing my mind. I want to do less and less organizing, and more dumping, and use vector search capabilities to find what I need.

Haven't set it up yet, but it's on my TODO list.
Oh neat! I didn't know it could do this. I use U+202F (Narrow No-break Space) all the time to separate numbers from their unit (as in "20 kg" which I'm sure won't display correctly here), but I haven't found a convenient way to enter that on macOS.
The root of many successful revolutions is observing that what exists is simply unacceptable and working to build something transformatively new. Many such attempts fail, but not all of them do. Perhaps the author is identifying such a need, and might consider architecting a superior cross platform solution from first principles.
Hence, Redux.
I think the quality of delivery service for the other carriers is highly dependent on your local market, UPS in the town I recently moved to is godawful. Their customer support process is equally shit though and that's the same across most of the world though I'd assume.
I've used a couple of single/dual/tri-band wireless transmitters to hook up speakers, and I'd say I'm not really a fan. You have to be ok with dropped packets from interference (which happens pretty frequently if you're also sharing your 2.4/5/6ghz spectrum with WiFi), which is audible as silence or wrong sounds.

Or you're using a protocol that does retransmission/buffering, which introduces noticeable latency with the video or even between speakers.
> This is something that takes generations to build, but can get lost, very quickly.

Sure, hence my assessment of 5 decades.
Companies want cheap code monkeys that do leetcode. I don’t see this working.
Why was it removed? I think I had that for some reason...
A high rez verion of that would be awesome
> average developer

I don't know about you but "performance upgrades on ancient hardware" isn't exactly the sort of thing my manager would be terribly happy I was focusing my time on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnGoYZJ5-Vs
Johannes Kepler was effectively Newton’s experimentalist. His detailed observations of the planetary orbits led him to formulate equations of motion that Newton later explained as the dynamics of force, mass, acceleration, etc.
Hear me out: we have _two_ APIs.
I was intentionally ignoring any other aspect of their criminal justice system in writing that comment. I absolutely condemn Russia for many reasons, including their human rights violations.
Stable Zero123 Model Weights get Released. Text to 3D and image to 3D
> They can happen at the same time.

Ok, maybe I should have said "one of these depends on the other"
So you wanna get unstuck
I think the fastest path to adoption is to build a front-end for nix so that non-technical users can use it like they would Ubuntu. Users could select packages and edit system config through a GUI, which would be built/deployed when the the user clicks "save" or whatever, with an "advanced" mode where users could edit and add extra text config if they wished. SnowflakeOS [1] and Fleek [2] are admirably starting to work towards that, but there isn't enough of a concerted community effort to make it a first class feature of NixOS. If/when something like this were mature, you could then take it to the next level, where you could have something similar to an "app marketplace" where users could share flakes or sets of config that do things, like "Jake's blinged out desktop" or "Home router setup", essentially adding an additional layer of easy composability on top of base packages that most systems support.

Apologies if there is already something like this in work by the core nix devs.

[1] https://snowflakeos.org/

[2] https://getfleek.dev/
Reading your link,

I recently examined nearly twenty thousand charitable grants the Gates Foundation had made through the end of June and found more than $250 million going toward journalism.

[ ... ] For example, in 2015 Gates gave $383,000 to the Poynter Institute, [ ... ]

and noting that it was written in 2020 and discusses examples from 2015 it appears that the Gates foundation donates at most $50 million / annum (perhaps less) to a broad range of media outlets across numerous countries.

The 'complaint' isn't specific to the Gates Foundation:

And that speaks to a larger trend—and ethical issue—with billionaire philanthropists’ bankrolling the news.

The Broad Foundation, whose philanthropic agenda includes promoting charter schools, at one point funded part of the LA Times’ reporting on education.

Charles Koch has made charitable donations to journalistic institutions such as the Poynter Institute, as well as to news organizations such as the Daily Caller News Foundation, that support his conservative politics.

And the Rockefeller Foundation ...

For balance it's relatively easy to make a case that the combined Koch donations to think tanks and news outlets since the 1970s have been far far worse by magnitudes for humanity in toto than anything yet revealed about the Gates foundation.

The Koch brothers very nearly singlehandedly tanked public transport in the US and delayed action on non fossil fuel climate technology for four to five decades while encouraging greater and greater excessive use of carbon based fuels.
In the UI I get a mix of Chínese and English, but the images in https://github.com/LHRUN/paint-board show English UI. ( few days ago, I had a problem because my browser prefered language is Spanish Latin America.)
I'm sure it'll be no problem to compete with Amazon warehouses, gargantuan stockpiles of product strategically placed across the country (and increasingly, the world) for rapid fulfillment.
Can you tape the ends red and black in this case? I thought there were some provisions for options there in case you had some super heavy cable but wrong color
If y'all are struggling to find good customer service from an online storefront, please allow me to recommend Office Depot / Office Max.

I have found that they've got a great selection of electronics, kitchen supplies, and of course office goods, and they are not a marketplace: they do not permit 3rd-party sellers. They have house brands and name brands, and they sell all through their own stores and warehouses.

The shopping experience both online and in-person is a breeze. Their logistics are great; when I went shopping for my Christmas gifts in the evening of 12/25, I scored free next-day delivery. I picked up a cable modem, some plasticware, and an executive office chair. They were all delivered via Uber next-day to my doorstep. Some originated from my local store, and some from across town.

As a bonus, their CopyMAX location allows me to securely shred documents for a song. They contract that out with Iron Mountain. I've got a membership; I earn points and valuable coupons every time I shop. It's basically worry-free, and the staff at my store is friendly, and they seem to be respected and supported by management, even though the storefront is a veritable ghost town by now.

I've been able to avoid any entanglements with Newegg and Target and Best Buy, where I've had some bad experiences. Office Depot/MAX is my go-to, first choice now for just about anything.
> Don't you ever use two screens?

My eyes can only look at one thing at a time.
I've been lurking on HN for years, and I just created an account to thank you for this post.

I always had this gut feeling that the Keynesianism in the aftermath of 2008 was a really bad idea but economics isn't my space and I don't care to argue with politicos about economics. This explains it really well.

So... now what?
What is your business model? I'm asking because it's on product hunt.
My personal experience with FedEx is they can't even match UPS for last mile delivery. How do they expect to compete with Amazon (and by extension Walmart) on e-commerce?
As a means of what?
Is FedEx going to allow ecom customers to access the same same-day blisteringly fast Amazon drivers or are we stuck with their garbage delivery network?
My point is that we have had multiple ice storms, and we have had the exact same problem happen before. We mitigated some of it, but still have had multiple trees and debris that fell right onto critical junctions. This is just as bad imo, remember that in 1998 we also had a month long outage that was due to the exact same reasons. I wouldn't expect Texas to be ready for a cold snap but I sure would expect our infra to be ready for an ice rain storm. To assume that it just isn't possible is again, very Canadian. Again, I would understand if it was a network wide failure that led to a grid collapse or something, but this is not the case.

In any case, if the same had happened in the US the media coverage and the mentality there would've led to a lot more introspection and self critique. And I know it sounds weird because Americans aren't exactly known for that, but compared to Canada? Yes they sure seem to be nowadays.

Another example that comes to mind was that here in Quebec we had one of the worse mortality rates in the world in the early days of COVID (something like triple our neighbors in Ontario and worse than new York) but we were still obsessed with covering how the US was going to soon be on the brink or something. Just as we had to send the army to nursing homes because patients were literally left to die. And you know what's the e overall conclusion about how COVID was dealt here in Quebec?
That we did pretty good lol. We even reelected the same exact government all while that was happening with a stronger majority. That's the mentality I'm talking about here, of complete lack of introspection and a weird inferiority complex with the Americans.
There were a couple of us around here who had the alarm circuit hack for DSL until Bellsouth finally figured out how to make it impossible to order. It was never easy, but (I assume) neglect of the systems, changes in tariffing and oversight, and BS not wanting to sell it finally let them get away with not provisioning the service without explicitly saying 'no'.
Every time I see a story about audiophiles today it makes me mad and depressed, because I like popular music. And I like to expand my collection with good new music.

But that pursuit is dead now for anyone who loves music or high-quality sound, because the record labels have utterly destroyed all new music with dynamic compression since the late '90s. Even worse, they've busily ruined their back catalogs with "remastering."

Now we have a generation of people who have never heard how good music can and should sound. The "loudness war" is so monumentally stupid that it must stand as one of the greatest crimes against art of all time. It's so insidious that even some of the musicians complaining about sound quality now have failed to recognize that the real problem is NOT data compression or sampling rate.

Apple and Spotify, as gatekeepers to hugely popular music services, are the only sort of entity that has any hope of "fixing" this problem by setting dynamic-range requirements, the way Netflix sets technical requirements. But while dynamic-range measurements (specifically LUFS) have gained adoption, Apple has instead brought us the degrading gimmick of Atmos.

It's really depressing for music lovers.
Wow! Good find!
A spine to push back on bad practices
There a lot of people willing to trash a company for $20 who won’t care.
> We have so many more people using computer devices and the internet now. We have to account for them to some extent and a lot of libraries do that for us, but it does make them heavier.

A significant percentage (majority?) of those devices and internet connections are low powered and slow compared to what most readers here are using

Those heavy libraries can often exclude those users simply because they can't adequately run the fancy features those libraries provide

There's a balance here that I think we, as an industry, are not managing well
That's still irrelevant. The compiler can look at any code like this:

```
invokeUB();
doSomething();
```

and regardless of what `doSomething()` does (it need not be a function call), remove the call entirely if it so chooses. The reason for this is that `doSomething()` cannot be reached except after `invokeUB()`. Because undefined behaviour can be considered unreachable, `invokeUB()` can be too. Therefore, to the compiler, it is impossible to ever reach `doSomething()`, and thus it may be safely eliminated.
> In this case, the fault isn't so much individual incompetence, as collective incompetence of the field. The ecosystem is toxic, as are conventional practices, as are market incentives. Individuals might be incompetent on top of that, but the situation is nigh impossible for competent ones as well.

Eh, I disagree. Software engineering allows for failure where the cost of failure is low. So your mail app stops working and you have to restart it, who cares, so long as you get some neat new features faster that on the whole make your life better?

In parts of the industry where failure is costly, like medical or aviation, we operate differently.

Speed and correctness are antithetical generally, and different parts of the industry accept different trade-offs based on their risk tolerance.

The goal isn't to build something that operates perfectly at all costs, the goal is to develop systems that operate as well as they need to given external constraints.

[edit] The truth is we wouldn't have 1/10th of the cool shit we have today if we demanded absolute perfection from things that just didn't need it because we're a "profession."
They’ll get there. When demand is there
And if you're talking about any popular music mastered (or "remastered") in the last 20 years, you're utterly wasting your time because it has been crushed into a wall of grating noise with dynamic compression.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38987959
Cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hard (2018)
Just save it for a time you’re out west. It’s good; well above average in fact. But it won’t live up to the hype.

If you asked my kids what the best burger place is, they’d say Culver’s without a second thought. They’re pretty rare unless you’re within 100 miles of Wisconsin, except there’s a bunch of them in Florida.
The PS3 could do general purpose computing. Its built in operating system let you play games, watch movies, play music, browse the web, etc. At the beginning of the console's life you could even install Linux on it.

The hardware of consoles has been general purpose for decades.
That's actually a good example of why it happened, and may well be referenced in the meta threads when they talked about it - not only is there no correct answer, these usually acted like clickbait, farming for reputation to gain access to moderation tools.
>It is a necessary evil to get me to somewhere in a way that is faster than driving.

I don't see it that way. I see it as a necessary evil to get me somewhere in a way that is much, much, much faster than a ship.
Like, sockets. (Addon instances are not processes, so it is not exactly interprocess communication...)
It's a consistent claim because it is consistently true.

The world does not generally operate 24/7 -- parts of it do, but most of it does not. And we (humans) tend to sleep at night.

While we're sleeping, we use less electrical power.

I mean: Think of all the things you (or any other person) might do in a normal day. Just list them out -- mentally, on paper, or whatever. Regular things, like work or school, or laundry, or eating food.

And now, you have a list of stuff that you generally do not do when you're sleeping.

So now, it should be intuitively obvious that energy consumption is reduced at night.

Here's some charts for different regions of the US that demonstrate that demand is lower at night, consistently, across all regions and all seasons: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42915

And some data from Alberta (home of the frozen gas pumps being discussed here) that also shows this trend: https://www.aeso.ca/market/market-and-system-reporting/

And another link that shows it for the UK: https://electricityproduction.uk/total/?t=7d

How deep do you want to dig? https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electr...
I've long thought the tar sands/ SAGD should be powered by nuclear waste heat. That could easily create a bunch of extra capacity and increase the net barrels produced.

A first hit on a google search illustrating what I'm talking about- https://albertainnovates.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Pacif...
Pointless jumping through circles.

At that point I would definitely get a JD instead.
I wasn’t thinking of Boeing specifically. Plenty of companies that seem like they should have been able to survive, at some scale, were destroyed by PE. Like Toys R Us.
A Rough Guide to the Rabbit R1
So similar to NixOS with Impermanence? Does it have home read-only too?
Interprocess communication?
if everything you do is move over stuff from the whiteboard to the computer yeah you wont type much.

but that’s not the kind of programming that exists, there’s a lot of trench digging.
tritium keychains, americium smoke detectors, and antistatic phonograph record cleaning brushes are. you might even be able to find thoria gas lantern mantles
Thank you 'apt-mark showmanual' is useful. Even better using synaptic you can the click the `Installed (manual)` status filter.

Still not as good as something like npm's `package.json` where it's a human edited list of packages you want installed and it's in the order that you added them in (if you ran `npm install $package-name`). Which is nice when you want to remove one you don't need anymore.

I wonder if it's possible hack a declarative package manger into a Debian system. Like a wrapper around apt that can do all of this.
> The point is, there's a truckload of fucked up shit on the net and AI isn't that good yet.

I would beg to differ. AI is definitely good enough to identify fucked up things. Feed GPT-4 even a subtly fcked up question, or fcked up image and it'll be onto you immediately

When I said edge cases, I wasn't arguing that there wouldn't be any edge cases - I'm saying the human agents were being shown videos that were not edge cases - i.e sexual abuse, gore - if it's bad enough to traumatize a human being, it's also high signal enough for a model to pick it up.

Yes, human agents should be used for labelling ACTUAL edge cases where a model might be confused - i.e is this a nerf gun fight or a real gun fight, is this person nude or is it just their shirt... not a plain beheading video.
That sounds like a pretty cynical view. There are thousands of companies (non faang) that don't do leetcode.

Why do you not see it not working?
I also consistently have a great time working with FedEx, UPS, and USPS for both shipping and receiving. If something comes up for me, more than likely it's actually the shipper/receiver screwing something up with the paperwork on their end or the information provided to me.

Also, I'll mention that Amazon FBA isn't even competing for my money or time. I can't use them, since I don't sell anything through Amazon nor pay for Amazon Prime if I buy something from Amazon.

Meanwhile, FedEx and UPS are almost always available anywhere, and USPS also remains an option everywhere if the shipment is something they handle.
I've seen too manny duplicated "ask" posts today, so there is a small chance of a system glitch.
They also have data that we have no idea about, and it shows.
> You need entrepreneurship, competition and risk taking.

Canada has had this in the past and IMO has faltered more recently.

RIM/Blackberry (ie pioneering elliptical curve crypto), Smart boards, Canada ARM for space, Candu reactors. We've had some pretty high tech inventions in the past. Waterloo was(/ is?) a pretty great tech school.
This is a widespread misconception: thinking of dynamic programming as just a form of memoized recursion is not the way to learn DP because it makes it extremely difficult to understand how to do the style of DP problems that involve filling out a 2D array.

For example, look at the "best time to buy and sell stock" series on leetcode: https://leetcode.com/problems/best-time-to-buy-and-sell-stoc....

These are much more naturally done by filling out an array, right? I've never done them with a recursion; I can't say I've thought hard about it -- is there a natural recursive solution?

(I linked to iii above but for anyone who hasn't tried them they are a great intro to DP problems; start with the first one: https://leetcode.com/problems/best-time-to-buy-and-sell-stoc...)
A couple of things make React extremely valuable to me:

- The functional programming model (State => UI) allows building very complicated interfaces in a very simple way, by defining dependencies with useEffect() and other hooks. It can take years to master it, but when you develop complex apps where all kinds of state needs to update when some other state changes, you really appreciate how simple it is to do with React.

- React is very backward compatible and allows you to migrate codebases to newer React features slowly over the years, while already using those new features in other parts of the code. (I still have some class-based components here and there.)

- There is a huge ecosystem of existing React components and tools you can use in your applications. They make it a very productive environment to get stuff done quickly. Frameworks like Next.js make it a breeze to develop and deploy static apps e.g. to S3.

- You can apply your existing React skills to React Native when you need native apps.
This is pure hyperbole. You may as well compare my broken fridge to a bridge falling down. Engineers designed that too but no one is going to jail over it.
but isn't ketosis supposed to increase metabolism
I'm wondering why the whole thing is an issue anyway. Why is there a water shortage? There's an entire ocean on both sides of the canal. Gatun Lake provides the water buffer for the canal. Currently it's freshwater based but it's also artificial to begin with. Why not transition to using salt water pumped from the oceans to top it off as needed? Seems a hell of a lot easier than trying to replace the canals with rails.
Well much of it is, such as the wire surrounding it. Superstitions still shape our modern world more than we often realize.
I documented how to do it with mise-en-place: https://mise.jdx.dev/tips-and-tricks.html#shebang
I worked with someone who was a Blizzard GM around when they rolled this out. Recovering stolen accounts was some absurdly large % of their customer service tickets. People would use the same email & password on WoW as on various shady / insecure sites. Bots would try any stolen credentials en masse in WoW. When they succeeded, not only would customer service need to restore a user's access, they would need to roll back their character to restore lost items and gold.

According to my coworker, adding 2FA was primarily about reducing this customer service workload. Eventually they encouraged it by adding in-game benefits, like additional bag space for your character. Not sure they ever went as far as mandating it.
Amazon has a billion times better logistics, software infra and data intelligence. Fedex's only competency is *null*.
Be profitable.

It’s implied when OP says “run a good business”, but as someone who’s been on the acquiring side - it becomes a lot harder to be the advocate to buy a company when it’s losing money.

(The business case math gets hard fast, with unprofitable companies & introduces a lot more risk)
hmm but a lot of people who do physical labor tend to be fat. I think what happens is they eat a lot off the job because the work causes hunger. Meanwhile, office people can stay slim despite not moving much. Of course, not everyone is the same.