skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Sharp TV in my kitchen dates from 1978 and the Toshiba microwave oven is about the same vintage. Both appliances still function perfectly and neither has ever had to be repaired.

The microwave still uses its original magnetron and there's been little drop in efficiency (in fact, I can't notice any difference in heating from new but it's been a long time).

The TV set is pre-digital and had to be fitted with a set top box (STB/PVR) when digital arrived. That's not all, the TV is so old that it only has a coax antenna input which means the three video (RGB) outputs from the STB had nowhere to plug into. To solve this I had to use a Tandy RF video modulator between the STB and the TV set.

One might say that's carrying things to extremes but there was no need to change the TV set as it still produces a very serviceable color picture without bloom or loss of focus.

Contrast the quality of these truly excellent appliances compared with most of the junk available today (I'll bet your Android or iPhone won't still be serviceable in 45 years).

Edit: oh I forgot to mention the gas stove in the kitchen long predates me, it's from the 1940s and works perfectly. Some years ago when I had a plumber in for a water problem I asked him what it would cost to fit a new stove and his reply was 'heavens, don't change your stove that type is now fashionable again and people will pay a lot of money for that model'.
What kind of bike is that? A Softail is ~630 and that is huge imho
The ridiculous thing is that selling an house without disclosing known effects is perfectly legal in England (caveat emptor) as long as you didn't lie if specifically asked. I.e. you do not have to volunteer the information.
Yeah it seems like people are assuming the person engaging with the floor would be kept completely stationary. It seems to me if the floor were covering a larger area and therefore required less manipulation to keep you stationary then it could use minimal inputs to keep you within the borders and still allow your inner ear to receive most of the inertial inputs required to feel realistic.
Every time I end up opening a gitlab page I wonder how they’ve redesigned their nav again. Seems to be a new design every 6 months.
I had to convert that but yes, that is a very heavy bike. I have a 1200RT and yours is 100 kg heavier, goodness knows on what. I know that the Michelin Road 6 comes in GT versions with an extra ply for heavier bikes - maybe that's actually for yours and not mine!
EV's are nowhere close to "nearly a ton heavier".

The Ford Lightning with the long range battery are about 1,000 pounds heavier than a gasoline F-150 SuperCrew.

A Telsa Model 3 is about 400 pounds heavier than a BMW 3.
By design, braking introduces drag onto the brake disc and in turn creates drag on the wheel. This drag is in opposition to forward momentum and so the rubber of the tyre flexes and gives to these forces a little at a time - resulting in slowing your forward momentum.

A rail car without rubber takes 10x-50x the distance to brake due to steel on steel friction.

Rubber is consumed from the tyre during acceleration, deceleration, and turning. Little rubber granules will roll off. The only time this isn’t happening is when the tyres aren’t in motion.

This is why you bring extra tyres to track day.
You've got to be joking. Pokemon has better writing then planescape torment or "endcap of airport fantasy shelf" writing?

This isn't a mistake I'm making. Less writing isn't better writing and more writing isn't better writing either. I think you're one of those people who just likes things extremely plain. Basic text that's less wordy is usually an example of bad writing imo. This kind of writing is good for research papers but for stories it's not a good thing.

Anyway here's an example of the "good writing" you're talking about in pokemon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxeU3WwbaqQ

Most people would disagree with you and agree with me. All the writing in there is pure garbage. I don't understand how you can call that "good" other then if you have a preference for simple sentences.
There is a fear or hatred of /etc/hosts amongst web developers. A regurgitated origin story about DNS and a perpetuated myth about the HOSTS file, having to do with constantly dynamic IP addresses. But the truth is that the conditions of the internet have changed. As someone who uses static, stored DNS data, and as such possesses a large chunk of historical DNS data, I have proof that, for the websites I may visit, most IP addresses do not change frequently.

Domain names are overrated. Web marketing hype. For example, no one uses a domain name to log into their router. But no one at home is getting internet access without typing an IP address at least once to set up a router. If I want to type a short, memorable name instead of an IP number to reach a computer on the local network I can make an entry in /etc/hosts. Using computers that have no /etc/hosts and no control over DNS sucks. Let web developers use those computers.

How many times have I seen developers copy entire portions of RFC 1035 into their code as a "comment". Too many to count. They will always struggle to understand it.
It's pretty commonly used in Rails form handling logic though, isn't it?
>You're trying extremely hard to rationalize your opinion, to the point of comparing piracy to THE ACTUAL HOLOCAUST. You seem to be absolutely and totally unwilling to even consider an opinion contrary to your own, waving it away as "delusion".

No I'm saying EVEN something as extreme as the holocaust can be rationalized. Thus even simple stuff like piracy can be too. It's comparatively easier and very possible.

If I was doing what you're implying, saying that piracy is comparable to the holocaust I would be doing the opposite of rationalization. What am I going to comfort myself after stealing something and say I did something so atrocious that it's equivalent to the holocaust? It's radically the opposite, such beliefs are more like phobias, if I held such false beliefs I would be LESS likely to pirate.

>If you can't understand why everyone is "deluded", maybe you should take a long hard look in the mirror and ask if maybe there's a possibility that you are in the wrong.

No. I'm pretty sure I'm not deluded given that my viewpoint isn't rosy or justifying anything. Delusions are usually used for self comfort, there's none of that going on here with me.

>Ask yourself what a "deluded" person would do and say to convince themselves and then take a look at what you've written here.

A deluded person wouldn't call himself a criminal. But that's exactly what I am. I'm self fish, I'm an ass hole, and I'm a criminal. But I'm also saying most people are like this. They just can't admit it. It's a dog eat dog world.
Mozilla was awesome when I started Web programming in 2009. Remember Firebug? But then Chrome came out and the rest is history.

Nowadays Mozilla fumbles and complains. Maybe rightly so. I'm just tired of it.
By that logic You should break into a billionaires home and steal their stuff because billionaires already have a ton of money. Let's be real here. It's theft.

What is and isn't theft is 100% independent of how rich the person you steal from is. You and I are thieves. Plain and simple.
> the useful XKCD number would be the proportion of comments before and after the first XKCD reference

That would be XKCD velocity, I guess.
Personal anecdote, there's a lot of your nervous system that is indeed simulating other personas in your head. And the closer you get the deeper the mirroring (children, spouse).

After some catastrophic events, whenever I was smiling, the shape was altered, and took how my ex was smiling (very different facial structure) and triggered hallucinations of her face onto mine and other various emotions. It happens whenever (at various intensities) I mirror her smile.
I saw Meru in a theater and sat in the parking lot afterwards wondering what I just watched.
Oh, the idea of tracking the state of the refactoring process with small scripts is very cool. Obvious in retrospective too. These scripts would be useful even if they're only like 90% correct.
All they have to do is measure time in bed, which for most people most of the time will correlate closely with total sleep. Insomniacs are outliers so you don’t need to worry about measuring them and most are taught to just get up when they awaken anyway.
So I assume your feedback is official right? I understand now that it could be an interesting contribution to have a similar database to be used, for example, for machine learning? Do you agree?
Education and talent is more widely distributed now, though.
I’ve seen localhost.localdomain often but I’m not sure whether it’s actually reserved.
True. But they can do that with red-light cameras to where only the offenders data is captured. I think the issue is more on how they will implement the system than how they could implement the system. I can't see them setting up GPS enforced speed and not wanting the ability to track the location because of theft/national security/[insert favorite soapbox].
The code introduces some speed variation on each bounce, either positive or negative so it's possible that over time one ball ends up a lot faster?
> It is absolutely not "true both legally and morally." It all depends on scale and purpose of the operation.

Well I wasn't making a general statement - I was talking in this specific case.

Let's give an analogy - if a bunch of bank robbers have taken hostages and are threatening to kill them, and if the police is reasonably certain there is no way of actually getting them out - the police is morally justified in sending in SWAT to try and rescue as many hostages as possible. Even if they know that many hostages will die.

The moral fault is with the bank robbers, not the police.

> If [I]sraeli military acted with disregard to the lives of non combatants, that would account to war crimes, against their own population.

I think that's a totally valid internal matter for debate within Israel. Should this kind of doctrine be the rule? Is it appropriate to attempt to stop militants by any means necessary, including possibly at the cost of your own population? This is in the same vein as "we don't negotiate with terrorists", a principled position that theoretically cuts down on terror, but that has brutal immediate ramaficiations in specific cases.

That all said, I don't think this doctrine amounts to war crimes (I'm not sure how it possibly could amount to war crimes). And I think it's an internal matter for debate inside the country, but don't really see how it matters to anyone else.

In fact, it kind of proves the opposite of what many people think - that the IDF is specifically trying to kill Gazan civilians. I'm often asked "what would the IDF do if the innocent civilians around a Hamas militant were Jews, not Palestinians, would you still bomb them even though it might cause collateral damage?". And while I think that question has a lot of answers, I think the "Hannibal directive", if implemented on October 7th (as appears likely), is actually proof that the IDF acts consistently, if terribly brutally - civilians are sometimes collateral damage, even if they're Israelis.
.d is easier to type.
It would be interesting to know if it can get into a looping state after which it just repeats previous moves forever. I guess that would be an “end” of sorts.
I'm reading The Universe and the Teacup by K.C. Cole and in the chapter on voting she mentions the "Alabama Paradox"

> The exploding 1880 census figures, for example, prompted a revision of the ways representatives were elected to Congress. Specifically, the House of Representatives was made bigger — a change you would expect to produce greater representation for at least some states. And so it did. However, under one scheme, the State of Alabama would have lost one seat, even though the total House membership increased. This so-called Alabama paradox forced the leaders to find a less objectionable solution.
The real reason Walmart allows car campers to sleep in their parking lots...
I remember growing up in the eighties that pasta essentially meant macaroni or spaghetti in the Netherlands; occasionally lasagne. Most pasta dishes cooked were those bludgeoned into Dutch submission (i.e., sauces made from a packet, and invariably with meat) those days sucked; I'm glad my mother had a fairly decent pasta sauce recipe though.

Nowadays I'm partial to linguini or orecchiette (I suspect my parents still think that's fancy). Of course once you actually visit Italy or otherwise eat in a restaurant serving actual Italian pasta, your views on what pasta is all about tend to change.
I'm trying to think of any mythology which wouldn't be considered human-scale, like you describe, and can't really think of any at all.

Do you have any thoughts on some outliers as far as mythology goes?
He's saying that both regenerative braking and normal braking go through the tires. Both wear down tires via the same mechanism, so the call out in the article is BS.
We've ordered this a few times and always keep a few boxes in the pantry.

It's a good substitute for deCecco "Galletti", which we used to get in San Francisco. But the corner store stopped carrying it, and I later learned it wasn't sold in the US. (They're supposed to be cockscombs, but we always called them sea monsters.)

If you're looking for a long pasta, fusilli bucati lunghi is fun. They're essentially old-school telephone cords.

[1]: https://www.dececco.com/lv_en/product/galletti-n-44/
Virtual people don't die of old age so they can go from star to star in "just" thousand years and would now span a great chunk of spiral arm. Also, since they can be copied over (can they?) they will never have to split up, they will just fork() the whole colony and say themselves goodbye.
It's an interesting failure mode of our current economic system that the fix for this issue will inevitably come from a lone frustrated outsider.

The employees of the company are much better equipped with all the insider knowledge, blueprints, source codes et cetera. But the incentive models for companies essentially guarantee that they'll never go through the trouble of solving a persistent problem for an already-on-the-market product, if the problem is not big enough to cause a recall or substantial numbers of product returns

So our only hope is some amateur sleuth operating from home, stabbing blindly at the card with caffeine and hatred as the only tools in their disposal. But they'll probably solve it, and we'll get to read a cool blog post about it!
interesting. I hope it's not too late to ask: could you expand a little bit, in particular, what do you mean by "over very general dataflow graphs"?
>Dragon age had this a decade ago

Fine maybe not the only one. But very very few are like it.

>I am skeptical that Baldur's Gate 3's scripting is actually this resilient. Regardless, games like Fallout had this sort of behavior two decades ago.

No fallout doesn't come close. Fallout is structured so you can't kill critical main characters until it's time. They structure the script in a way where it's impossible. This is way better than putting up invulnerability guards the way most games do.

Bg 3 solves the issue by using replacement characters. You kill off a critical person to early another person will take his place and fulfill his role.

I suspect the developers have some sort of plot hole static checker similar to type checkers that allow them to fill every possible hole.

> Vastly different experiences, one seems like good writing, one seems bad.

You are conflating bad writing with personal preference. Whether a character makes one choice or the other the writers narrate both options the quality of the narration is not what you're commenting on. You're commenting on your preferred choice. Not agreeing with a choice or even not agreeing with writing is not bad writing. For example, I wouldn't call the mien Kampf poorly written even though I disagree with it.

I mean read what you wrote. Where in any of your paragraphs was writing actually commented on? You are commenting more on plot and choices.
Towards Sustainable Cloud Archival Storage in Glass
What used to keep me up at night was skipping dinner. I would watch the ceiling for hours in anxiety. Until one day, late at night, I went out of bed for some fast food to take away
Coding with AI has been amazing.

I am a pretty 'mid' software developer generally, have been working as a PM for the last 3 years so have gotten rusty. Got laid off in December.

In about 60 hours of work, I've built a MVP React webapp that is hosted on githubpages, uses firebase for a serverless backend, and integrates with OpenAI APIs to turn user requests into structured JSON that serves as a starting point for the users without having to code the complex logic manually.

Just used ChatGPT4 to figure out how to get a domain working with my githubpages hosting (turns out I skipped a step when I read the docs - and DNS issues can be confusing).

Each of those steps had me running into frustrating bugs that I could have spun my wheels on for hours - with ChatGPT4, it didn't always identify the fix immediately, but I was able to debug so much faster, usually resolving the issue in about 30 minutes. More than the time savings, I really appreaciate the effect it has on morale for me: I hate being stuck on a problem and not knowing what to try next. It feels like I have a senior engineer who I can slack a question and get a thoughtful response inhumanly fast at any time of day (even when coding at 2AM).

ChatGPT 4 has been a lot more helpful to me that Copilot, but I might just not know how to get the most out of copilot yet. Copilot is really nice for jumping past writing boilerplate, but ChatGPT 4 can synthesize entire solutions that span multiple files, which I haven't had success getting from copilot.

What's even cooler is that I had never even touched React before 3 weeks ago, and now feel like I'm moderately fluent in the general design principles. If I was doing self-directed study of React starting from the docs, I probably would still be playing with toy hello world problems, but instead I've gotten the project I was hoping to build to a viable prototype.

One source of delight is using AI to synthesize dictionary data. I have a bunch of ingredients that users choose from and being able to "autocomplete" a solid initial draft for new dict entries feels like magic.

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The core is all working and good enough, but probably have another week to get it to where I think it'll be ready to start doing some marketing.
I now understand that. I just thought it was trivial for HN to export the public database buit if not it can be retrieved from the API. Are there hard rate limits to use the API? And we can assume that everyone has a license tu publish the HN public data? In general, there is a disclaimer about that. Don't want to be sued though.
Yup, The Netherlands. My plan is to check out my daughters math classes she gets in high-school next year. She’s way smarter than me, so she can teach me!
Generally agree, though let's be real that transmission and distribution losses for ground mount solar are not slight, they are in the 30-40% range, like all utility T&D.
My issue with this thesis is it anthropomorphizes intentions and capabilities.

We're predicting the behavior of civilizations a lot more advanced than us. We need a level of humility to realize that this is a lost cause, and a lot of the paradigms we take for granted will be shown to be false.

So while everything you said makes sense, the space of unknown unknowns is so large that we should moderate our confidence in the underlying assumptions downwards.
Rooftop is generally on site. Ground is generally in large arrays owned by power companies.
Being on site and owner-operated means not incurring the expenses of lines and various markups (sometimes extreme) from power companies. And it means being completely independent of the power companies who have different incentives.
You'd think, but I'm currently looking at a 161/863 split which has been pretty stable for a while now. I thought at first that ball speed is being scaled by territory size to cancel out the negative feedback, and the "winning" ball is moving noticeably faster than the losing one, but I can't see that being deliberate in the code. (There is some randomization of speed on a bounce, but it ought to be pure noise.)

EDIT: 120/904 now.
Correct. I don't see why regenerative braking would be any different

Tire wear would be a factor of deceleration, regardless if it's from a traditional brake or electrical braking
That I got new? Probably alarm clock with the red LEDs, from 1991ish.

I have an early-1960s waffle iron but it was refurbished and bought just a couple years ago.
Interesting commentary on the video: https://x.com/sumlenny/status/1749870142547255525

What if they revise and re-issue the video based on the comments?

The alternate titles suggested are also interesting:

“ A good wording could be:
Почему я обратился в ЦРУ
Почему я вышел на ЦРУ
Почему я начал работать с ЦРУ
Почему я написал ЦРУ
Почему я пошел к ЦРУ (not "в ЦРУ", as the latter is for cadets who start their work for the agency)
or even Почему я выбрал ЦРУ”

From Google translate:

“ A good wording could be:
Why I turned to the CIA
Why did I contact the CIA?
Why I started working with the CIA
Why did I write to the CIA
Why did I go to the CIA (not ‘to the CIA’, as the latter is for cadets who start their work for the agency)
or even Why I chose the CIA”
yeah in fact pi isnt technically even "known" by anyone
Who said anything about being forced to be friends with coworkers?
What if it has real paddles? left-hand (using A,Z) vs. right-hand mode (K,M)? :-)
Tires last longer when you treat the controls as analog not digital. This is a problem for all terrible drivers, it turns out that a disproportionate number of assholes are also rich enough to buy electric.
The world includes a lot of people and a lot of countries. Many of them strongly disagree with your characterization of what is happening as a genocide, including many of the world's democracies. You can think whatever you want about the conflict - but it is undeniablely wrong to say that "anyone paying attention" is supporting Palestine.

(I also strongly disagree with calling it a genocide, btw.)
That's such a naive take and insulting to those who haven't encountered any believable gods. You're implying those without religious beliefs are holding society together when it's proven that in nature that even birds have a sense of fairness. Even without belief in gods, birds will 'take note' when other birds receive food non-proportionately[0]. That's not even mentioning how religion has been used in the past to tear societies apart as well as individuals. Once again, I get tired of having to defend secularism from this special snowflake-ism, virtue-signalling and self-righteousness that pervades the religious mindset. You do things animals do, be careful in thinking you're much better than we are.

0: https://www.oipa.org/international/animals-sense-of-fairness
But you know that law applies differently to poor people and to wealthy and powerful people?

Whatever is ok for congressman could not be ok for you.