skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Overall, the two studies suggest bed-sharing — when no other hazards are present — raises the risk of SIDS by about threefold.
Right, clearly burning a million or perhaps even quite some millions would have a negligible effect on the currency, similarly millions in counterfeit money would have to be circulated to actually destabilize the currency (that's assuming the dud notes aren't noticed first).

Clearly, in modern times in modern democracies it's very unlikely that in any practical scenario that some entity would be capable of unofficially adding or withdrawing enough money from a currency to actually destabilize it, moreover in such an event the central bank/government would be onto it in seconds.

It's however an altogether different scenario if the citizenry somehow has the perception that the currency isn't exactly what the central bank purports it to be. Just the notion that something may be wrong with the currency could destabilize it, hence hellishly tight laws to ensure this never happens.
> Does food in the US not go off?

Sadly, you're right. It doesn't.

In my experience, american fridges contain products that do not perish as easily. Lots of frozen goods and processed foods. Even the fresh foods seem to last longer out here. Milk lives for 2 weeks, their bread is unkillable and longer lasting greens (Kale) are more popular.
I had never heard of Subzero before this post, and just looked them up.

$10k-$15k for a refrigerator?

I’ve only ever owned fairly “basic” refrigerators (e.g. LG or GE), that are about 1/10 of that cost, and have never had any problems with them going out or even degrading in quality (e.g. 10+ years). Maybe needed an ice maker repair, but that’s about it.

Do people need to spend that kind of money for a refrigerator that lasts?

Maybe if you’re going to be in your home for 30-40 years, but not many people stay in one place long enough to outlive these “basic” refrigerators. And even then, I’d argue that a $1k-$2k refrigerator can still last that long.

(I’m using “basic” in quotes here because I feel like our refrigerators weren’t even the bottom tier — they’re quite large, and have the features we need. But now seeing other brands that cost as much as some vehicles, to some they may seem basic.)
Luckily we still have crypto
It isn't zero sum. They could simply add the gizmos and keep the important bits the same as their refined, reliable 20 year old designs. What they're actually doing is actively spending engineering resources to enshittify what was already perfected to boost profit.
I still don't understand why they had to introduce a proprietary file format. It means that, instead of being able to rely on existing tools for type checking & proper IDE support (like React does), you need custom tools for that custom file format. Unfortunately, developing those takes time – apparently more than 10 years: To this day (I set up a new Vue project just a few days ago) there are countless bugs in vue-tsc and Volar.

What's worse, type checking was largely an afterthought in the development of Vue. Can we, as an industry, please finally agree that languages & frameworks with proper (tools for) static type checking are infinitely better than those without, instead of having to painfully re-learn that lesson time and again? Heck, even Python devs are using type hints these days!
I suspect this is the .NET runtime + libraries, not applications written in C#.
This diagram would serve as a helpful companion to the article:

https://www.nayuki.io/res/dumb-png-output-java/png-file-form...

> I won’t go in depth on DEFLATE here (in part because I am not an expert^4)

> 4. If you are an expert, please contact me. I want to learn!!

You already linked to "An Explanation of the DEFLATE Algorithm", which shows that you've been searching on the web already. I'm not sure if it'll make a difference, but here are a few more resources: https://www.euccas.me/zlib/ , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflate
I have been able to run ksh93 in an nspawn container under systemd in a tiny fraction of what is presented here.

I did this by tracking the output of the ldd command and moving only needed libraries into the container.

Why is docker so big?
Hum, I'd like to question that.

I have no idea how to solve it, but demanding big capital is exactly what led us to the situation that the corporations are too big to punish, and can kill as many people as they wish, making the regulation completely moot.

The regulation will always take some capital, and slow innovation by some amount. But the current mindset is completely counterproductive.
The biggest reason for banks to exist is too provide "grease" for the economy, i.e. to connect people with money to people who needs to borrow :)

Most banks here don't handle the actual payments themselves except the biggest ones.

The small "savings banks" like the one I work in doesn't have shareholders either, they are owned by the depositors. Almost every small town and community here has one.
I’d be shocked if home appliance filters are capable of filtering PFAS anyways.
With five tabs open in Notepad, since they are placed in the titlebar, there remains only about 1 cm of titlebar by which I can grab the window to drag it around. This area is distinguished only by a short vertical pale grey line like a pipe character, because it's not cool to have a border around any interface element any more apparently. So I often drag a tab off the window by mistake and have to put it back and hunt for the small part that's actually the titlebar.

Then there's the way they put search into a fixed floating window, which when you search upward sits on top of the search result, obscuring it.
It is said explicitly in the article that 1) you have to activate it and pay for it 2) the data is not used for training
Yes! Congrats Phil!
I'm surprised to see no one has pointed out RMarkdown + RStudio[1] as one simple, low-effort way interface with Pandoc using an IDE you may already use.

I used to write papers and slides in LaTeX (using vim, because who needs render previews), then eventually switched to Pandoc (also vim). I eventually discovered RMarkdown+RStudio. I was looking for a nice way to format a simple table and discovered that rmarkdown had nice extensions of basic markdown (this was many years ago so maybe that is incorporated into vanilla markdown/pandoc).

The RMarkdown page claims:

> R Markdown supports dozens of static and dynamic output formats including HTML, PDF, MS Word, Beamer, HTML5 slides, Tufte-style handouts, books, dashboards, shiny applications, scientific articles, websites, and more.

...which I think is largely due to using pandoc as the core generator.

RStudio shows you the pandoc command it runs to generate your document, which I've used to figure out the pandoc command I want to run when I've switched to using pandoc directly.

This is a bit of a "lazy" way to interact with pandoc. Maybe the "laziest" aspect: when I get a new computer, I can install the entire stack by installing Rstudio, then opening a new rmarkdown document. Rstudio asks whether I'd like to install all the necessary libraries -- click "yes" and that's it. Maybe that sounds silly but it used to be a lot of work to manage your LaTeX install. These days I greatly favor things that save me time, which seems to get more precious every year.

[1] https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com
My barber only takes cash. $18 for a standard haircut.
AFAICT the spec does not exclude zero-size images, which would make the smallest image 22 bytes (14 bytes header + 8 byte end marker).

Otherwise the pixel in a 1x1 image can be encoded in 1 byte, giving 23 bytes total.
> Also, I find your reaction thin skinned-ish as well. Why throw stop commands if you ought to not care?

Oh really. You're the one who can't shut up about some app that used to be named f*ck but was renamed some 30+ years ago still grinds your gears.

It's an (ancient) light hearted joke, please just drop it.

I care about the state of the world, and I find it deeply depressing people run around being prude like we're some kind of Christian middle ages society.
Really depends on where you live.

In NYC/HCOL areas where the groceries are practically luxury priced, having a discounted meal kit delivered does add up savings-wise.

I think it's like some of the other HCOL urban business models that won't / didn't scale nationally during/after COVID. Favorite example is Peloton. $40/month virtual gym is a great option in NYC where a "nice gym" might cost 5-10x that. In the rest of the country where you can get a serviceable gym for $20-50/mo and NICE one for maybe $100/mo.. it's not a compelling offer! People think I'm joking but my hometown which is 75mi outside NYC has a $20/mo gym. Why would anyone there get a Peloton?
Sure, but assuming everyone puts similar amounts of efforts into manipulating the metrics, the model will come to reflect the fact that those metrics are no longer predictive, and there will no longer be a benefit to manipulating them.

Thats the benefit of this scheme - it isn't statistically sound, but all the statistical shortcomings eliminate themselves as people try to exploit them.
This isn’t what the comment I replied to was suggesting.

Also, I can see there is a case for using a simple modern design such as Cortex-M as a base but - as the peer comment also says - it’s really not the case that a Cortex M7 is conceptually simpler than a 8-bit design.
Rancher Desktop is very slow. There must be a driver (virtio?) issue in their WSL VM.

Podman is much faster.
which you can remove in two clicks
I wouldn't be so sure:

The Royal Society of Chemistry is calling on the UK Government to overhaul its drinking water standards, after new analysis reveals more than a third of water courses tested in England and Wales contain medium or high-risk levels of PFAS, more commonly known as forever chemicals.

https://www.rsc.org/news-events/articles/2023/oct/pfas-clean...
You’re right but also keep in mind that company policies are often made without much thought. I can totally see a BigCorp making a policy that no AI clients are to be installed on their machines, regardless if the functionality is turned off
If they force me to use the new UI I'm gone, it's that simple. Either the new UI has window configuration parity or its over. I want every tab exactly where it is today (with the exception of the Structure tab which should be on the right by default)
I frequently use 50% off discounts to buy square pie guys pizza.

Will I buy that pizza at full price? _probably_ not, but I will tell everyone that it’s amazing because is it. So it’s a $12 review, right?

Compared to a $1k-$5k /video influencer, isn’t that a deal?

I’ve even spammed their name in this comment.

Disclaimer: I know nothing about marketing economics
Yeah- well:

It was first, and first mover advantage is significant, which has turned into network effects and inertia, and now with the ETF recognition has gained "official" validation;

Anti-inflation is one of its core design principles, is the basis for store of value, and commitment to it has remained solid;

After ETH PoS changes it remains the only proof of work chain. PoS has belief failure modes that can lead to collapse of value. PoW-based value by definition is secured by the cost of the work. It is a financial equation- a ledger can be maintained at the underlying cost of recoverable energy- not a political/fashionable one.

Mindshare can be fickle, and if purely based on fashion, if there is no inertia and there are adjacent equivalents, value can be lost quickly. With BTC there is inertia, because at a deeper level there are no adjacent equivalents. BTC continues to occupy a unique niche in the design space of these artifacts/assets.
I (shamefully) re-registered for VMUG just to get another year before I have to move my lab stuff off of their stack.

I really wish Proxmox was as fully baked as ESXi is, at least from an automated deployment perspective. I have a stupid goal to fully black-start my network from as few scripts/files as possible, and a migration to Proxmox is making that mildly more annoying.
This Putnam comeback and Ravi Vakil, what is all this? Can anybody care to explain, please..
In your previous comment you said you wrote "about 1000 games" in your school years.

I wonder if that was a lie too? :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39235575
Maybe cardboard furniture? Don't have a specific recommendation right now but there's extensions and pedestals for tables and such.
Yeah on RubyMine at least, it's off by default and you have to turn it on. In fact, the account administrator has to turn it on if you have a site license, as we do. And when I requested for it to be turned on, it was declined because of the risk that closed-license code would thereby wend its way into our (open source) product ...
Microsoft ha rilasciato un nuovo e importante aggiornamento del firmware dedicato al Surface Pro 9 5G, focalizzato su miglioramenti significativi della qualità audio e sulla stabilità complessiva del dispositivo. Gli utenti possono ora scaricare l'aggiornamento direttamente tramite Windows Update.

È importante notare che il Surface Pro 9 basato su Intel riceve un aggiornamento del firmware separato, con ulteriori dettagli disponibili cliccando [qui](inserire link).

Novità nell'Aggiornamento:
L'aggiornamento include un importante miglioramento audio grazie all'aggiornamento Dolby, fornendo correzioni per la stabilità dell'audio sul Surface Pro 9 5G.

Nuovi Driver Aggiunti:

Surface System Telemetry Driver - Versione 10.104.30.0
Surface Hot Plug - Versione 3.204.20.0
Surface SMF Intel CPU Client Driver (Microsoft) - Versione 1.173.29.0
Surface Integration Service - Versione 6.213.30.0
Surface SPT Core - Versione 2.148.18.0
DolbyAPO SWC Device - Versione 3.30508.581.0

Ulteriori Informazioni sul Rilascio:

Configurazioni Supportate: Surface Pro 9 5G con processore Microsoft SQ3
Versioni di Windows Supportate: Windows 11 versione 22H2 e successivi
Come Ottenere l'Aggiornamento: Tramite Windows Update (non disponibile per l'installazione manuale)
Passaggi Aggiuntivi: Nessun passo aggiuntivo richiesto prima o dopo l'installazione
Problemi Conosciuti: Nessun bug noto nell'aggiornamento.

Il Surface Pro 9 5G, attuale tablet di punta di Microsoft con fine supporto programmata per il 25 ottobre 2028, sarà presto sostituito da un modello più recente entro la fine dell'anno. Rumors indicano un evento Surface speciale a marzo, presentando nuovi dispositivi per i clienti business, mentre il successore ufficiale del Surface Pro 9 5G è previsto per giugno 2024. I nuovi computer Surface si concentreranno sull'intelligenza artificiale e introdurranno chip ARM su più dispositivi, ampliando l'offerta oltre la linea Surface Pro. Per acquistare il Surface Pro 9 5G e sostenere il nostro lavoro, utilizza il nostro link di affiliazione su Amazon: Link Affiliazione.
There's a kit on Amazon for the Dreamstation that contains the same piece except without the silencing (poison) foam. I replaced the part about a year ago and the sound is not that much louder. It doesn't keep myself or my wife up at all, at least.
I would be concerned if the next version of VMWare Workstation was subscription-only. I think VMWare has some nicer tools around snapshots and networking, but if they want to move to a rent model I’d be back to Virtualbox in a heartbeat.
Interesting, I didn't know that, I think I'll stick to alt-moving, it's been very convenient so far!
I had to explain the point of Finesse OS (used in the original NTI PIX firewalls[1]) to someone technical the other day, within the context of a single-purpose (in fact single service) OS concept. “But it was Linux right?” Was a cognitive hurdle it took several attempts to clear.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_PIX
La Sagrada Familia would disagree…
Hey there Bhupesh - apologies for the snark! I was just venting some of the frustration I feel every day with modern "devops" tooling ;)

I am in a bit of a rush right now (which is why I try my absolute best to keep procrastinating on HN at the the absolute minimum, I swear! ;)), but I will try to share some insight later (potentially as a comment on your blog).
> I'm pointing out that Amazon isn't where they are due to overworking people.

I don't know enough to weigh in on if this was a thing in past Amazon, but if Amazon isn't willing to lose, say, 5% profit to ensure that people aren't overworked, that seems to be done in bad faith. And the lost profit certainly doesn't have to come out of the manual workers' paychecks.

> And capitalism as it exists today isn't even close to being "unbridled". In fact many have good arguments that it's far too bridled in terms of tariffs and import quotas and price controls and so on and so forth.

I think it's unbridled enough if we have companies outsourcing to other countries or hiring illegal immigrants so they can pay workers a pittance, exorbitant sums spent on lobbying to preserve the environment-negative status quo and whatnot, anti-competitive behavior leading to monopolies/oligopolies, and Boeing planes having fatal malfunctions because executives know how to build planes, I guess? (Hint: they clearly don't.) Oh, but the bottom line will be harmed. My bad, I guess we should continue overpaying executives and heaping negative externalities onto consumers and broader society.

Maybe that isn't all what you personally think, but clearly a "profit at all costs" model has huge ramifications. You pretty much have to abandon your morals to become a person who comes out on top of the system.
We had similar problems with a Samsung fridge and the same solution. And I won’t buy an another Samsung product again.
Taking something does not legally incur a debt, it's just a crime. The merchant did not agree to lend you anything, so there's no loan, so you can't pay it off with "legal tender".
Wikipedia is a treasure. Free to use, no cookie banner, fast, and no account required. It is refreshing compared to the rest of the internet that trends towards maximum extraction.
Where does the "expense" come from? You either put glue code on top of existing APIs, having almost no optimization advantages, but still having to combine data (the comment I'm responding to). Or you create new endpoints, with more code reuse in them, and more optimization. How is the latter more expensive than the former?

And if you just talk about having 1 api for 3 front-ends, aren't you then forcing your front-ends to contain a ton of business logic to figure out how and what to display based on your API? You could've just given them what they need, but instead they're forced to weave together some insane tapestry from all kinds of "generic" endpoints you gave them? Isn't it expensive to maintain those front-ends?
I liked it too. There's a bit near the start where one of the characters makes some comment with slightly awkward-sounding wording; I forget what, precisely, but it was exactly the sort of thing you'd expect from a modern English speaker fluffing an attempt to stay in character as a Victorian or whatever. They even sounded a bit like they were half-realising this as they were saying it.

I put it down to a mistake that they didn't have time to fix. But then, given the ending, I realised it must have been deliberate.
Ask HN: Run Stable Diffusion in Google Colab without worrying about being banned
Hello everyone,

I am creating a UI to run Stable Diffusion directly in Python on Google Colab without using A1111 and Gradio to avoid being banned by Google. I wonder if many people are interested in this?
> There are smartphones (for various values of "smart" and "phone") which run Linux

Really? Which ones?
We're heading this direction. There's a number of industries which technology has enabled them to move closer (or completely into) a manufacture-on-demand model where it's economically feasible to have small production runs (sometimes of even a single unit).

T-Shirts are probably the first one I am aware of which got there. But strangely enough, Guitars are moving that way. It used to be to get a signature series you had to be a pretty big artist. These days, there's players from cover bands getting signature series! You look through all the lists of signature series guitars, and quite a lot of them have been released in just the last ~12 years. PCB's are going there now too - I've read on HN itself hobbyists talking about how cheap it is to get individual custom boards printed for them for projects shipped from China. Manufacturers taking production runs of less than 100, and happy to do it.

It's worth noting - production on demand doesn't provide any guarantee that the products will have good longevity. In fact, many printed-on-demand T-Shirts are pretty crap and you end up tossing them after a couple years.
I'm certain you could do it. You install ZoneAlarm (or equivalent), tell it to block everything (by clicking a checkbox or something), and allow or deny connection requests when they pop up.

You did make that claim, but whatever: "Honestly, the biggest reason to use a Mac over anything else may well be Little Snitch."
Interesting to see people were complaining about low quality comments from the beginning.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5094714

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5093253
> What's the gripe with telemetry?

Reasonable question, but it's a big topic that deserves its own forum.
if you're the kind of person wanting to do bots you're not going to get found probably because you'd use spoofing, proxies or vpns, and multiple accounts.
Well it kind of is by choice. Unless the author enjoys this type of work he could have easily bought a no-feature fridge that lasts for 10-15 years.
RO definitely does. Other filters can as well, but maybe not as well. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/14/health/pfas-water-filters-wel...
You need custom tools for React, too. Because JSX is not valid JS.

In most (all?) IDEs you can also tell the IDE to treat the file with a certain extension as written in any language
Actually, for the last couple of decades, the primary process in both parties has become very open. There isn't even a requirement to be some sort of formal member of a political party, you only have to be registered (and in some states not even that).

There's a widespread conception that candidates are picked via meetings in smoke filled back rooms - that used to be true, but it isn't true (certainly not in the same way) anymore. Read up on the stories of various "insurgent" candidates in both parties over the last 20 years - the common element is organizing and campaigning so that primary voters actually check the box for you.
Author here

> copying the various standardized CLI tools and related library files into the image versus installing them with APK can introduce _many_ compatibility challenges down the road as new base Alpine versions are released which can be difficult to detect if they don't immediately generate total build errors

I'm maybe missing some context here, so you are saying that the default location of these binaries can change (the one's that get copied directly)? Or is it about the shared libraries getting updated and the tools depending on these libraries will eventually break?
I switched back too, as the new UI is just... ugly. It looks and feels more like something for children than a serious IDE. I've even gone back and tried it in earnest, but in all honesty I just don't understand why JetBrains have spent so much time and effort on something that's simply worse than the original UI.

I'm dreading the day where the old UI is replaced with the new UI... I might seriously have to look at going back to Visual Studio, and I'd really rather not - I just want to keep the existing, perfectly fine UI!
It looks excellent and addresses all the issues I have with json, yaml, XML and co, but developers love to use "simple" technologies that then cause unending pain later due to being too simple.
So I wonder if this will see much use.