skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Citation needed. The US is #8 in median speed for home broadband and #13 in mobile.

Considering that anything above 15mbps is enough for 4K Ultra Netflix I think the US is doing just fine.

https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/united-states
Querying the IP's of VLC nameservers works...

ns1.vlcplayer.org 213.36.253.2
ns2.vlcplayer.org 163.172.105.155

$ dig SOA videolan.org @213.36.253.2

;; ANSWER SECTION:
videolan.org. 300 IN SOA ns0.videolan.org. admin.videolan.org. 2024010903 7200 3600 2419200 21600

$ dig NS videolan.org @163.172.105.155

;; ANSWER SECTION:
videolan.org. 300 IN NS ns1.videolan.org.
videolan.org. 300 IN NS ns2.videolan.org.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.videolan.org. 300 IN A 213.36.253.2
ns2.videolan.org. 300 IN A 163.172.105.155
ns1.videolan.org. 300 IN AAAA 2a01:e0d:1:3:58bf:fa02:c0de:60

It's like VLC domain expired and removed from DNS system.
Also https://github.com/mozilla/platform-tilt/labels/vendor%3A%20...

Part of https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/01/19/platform-tilt/
Let's make it simple:

Can you share a quote here, that you think was a open call for genocide in Gaza? Then we can debate concretely that and not something meta.
Yep. The number of crypto hacks reported by https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com is just mental. Over 100m$ stolen in multiple hacks just this week, and it's not even a particularly busy one.
Showboaters, Maximalists and You
Use a nat64 gateway (a list is at https://nat64.xyz).
Why Companies Are Kicking Cloud to the Curb [video]
So CVs from folks who know LaTeX good enough to change Computer Modern to something else will be dumped into the trash…
America means “french-door” as in https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/French_door
The very short format is useful for reminders of what is possible, flagging features that I'd skipped over when they first came out (iterating over multiple values at a time, i.e. a hash in a foreach loop). You need to go elsewhere to get the significance of new features to the language, such as "class" or subroutine signatures.

It's the best format of reference I've seen for the times I'm asking myself what's the minimum version of Perl needed for this bit of code and what becomes available when ops upgrades the production server.
Open Source Tensegrity
this is another overreach of collectivism virus creeping upon us to make parenting even harder.

As of 2022, the average cost of raising a child to age 17 is $310605 [1] [2]. That does not include all the unpaid parenting time which is probably another 40h per week between the parents. So we're talking 18+ years worth of unpaid time invested (or sunk) into your child. And when they go to work the government gets to tax them and keep all of it.

Financially speaking we've invested $500k (equiv) into each child and the government gets to keep all the return.

For the government and capitalist system it's much cheaper to import "ready" adults from abroad after someone else bore the cost.

The tax system and incentives need to be re-arranged if we want people to have children. Even the biggest proponent (Musk) isn't doing anything to help out. Surely his employees have no time for parenting after these 60h weeks.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/09041...
[2] https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-true-cost-of-raising-a-child
My fridge craps ice and I never again want one that doesn't. It eliminates faffing with trays/bags (or buying the stuff) and ensures you'll never go to make a G&T and discover, horror of horrors, you're out of ice.

I need my fridge to connect to the internet about as much as I need my oven to operate as a fax machine, though.

(Also Northern Europe btw.)
Most probably they failed to renew on time and DNS vanished.

According to https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup domain Updated: 2024-02-03 01:48:49 UTC
I'm not a designer but have gone through similar things in my own niches and honestly I just decided to stop talking about things. It wasn't really healthy or useful the way in which I was talking about those things anyway. I think it feels like we almost need to constantly discuss our ideas about our craft or hobbies to an audience, but I've really enjoyed letting go of that and just focussing on my own stuff.
I personally think that this reason to keep a landline also became outdated.

There are so many tools and features on cell phones to identify and stop spam, and it seems like carriers are finally starting to get ahead of it.

At this point the people I know in my life who still have landlines mostly get spam on them especially because they aren’t actually using the landline for much, so almost 100% of the calls going over the land line are low-value even if they’re not spam.

I.e., everyone I know with a landline isn’t calling friends or family on the landline, it’s more like a contact phone number to give to the electric company.
Using a traditional templating engine is not treating HTML more as a string than React based frameworks do. Maybe even lass so, because of the separation of concerns. Traditional tenplating engines can separate part of HTML into named components without problem. Check for example Jinja2 or its clones in other languages. There is really no need to treat HTML in a plain PHP string concattenation style. There has not been for decades.

If you want something more structured data, look at sxml (see Racket or Guile). Then implement that in a library and use it in place of the default of most (all?) SPA frameworks.
The food pyramid is what made me see it. The USDA decided to just fuck up the diet of the western world because the US happens to be great a growing corn.
No!

Developers these days are far, far better resourced in almost every way imaginable, and the ever climbing salaries of the industry have pushed them to make good use of those resources.

Much better to ask if the quality of your software has gone downhill. If you ask and honestly answer that regularly, you will end up better for it, I promise.
I dunno why you got downvoted to dead state. I vouched your comment because you're not wrong.
That dryer will probably use a shocking amount of power.

Depending on local power costs a modern compressor dryer will easily pay for itself in a couple of years compared to sticking with the old one.
Humans haven’t been in the loop for about two decades now. High frequency quants just use faster, lower latency models than AI stuff.
> I think that bug-free software never existed...

Sure did. E.g. in 1985 I shipped an implementation of the real-time multi-tasking music programming language AMPLE in which no bug was found over its entire commercial life.

https://www.retro-kit.co.uk/Hybrid-Music-System/
Tried and rejected SeaweedFS due to Postgres failing to even initialize itself on a POSIX FS volume mounted over SeaweedFS' CSI driver. And that's too bad, because SeaweedFS was otherwise working well!

What we need and haven't identified yet is an SDS system that provides both fully-compliant POSIX FS and S3 volumes, is FOSS, a production story where individuals can do all tasks competently/quickly/effectively (management, monitoring, disaster recovery incl. erasure coding and tooling), and CSI drivers that work with Nomad.

This rules out Ceph and friends. GarageFS, also mentioned in this thread, is S3 only. We went through everything applicable on the K8S drivers list https://kubernetes-csi.github.io/docs/drivers.html except for Minio, because it claimed it needed a backing store anyways (like Ceph) although just a few days ago I encountered Minio being used standalone.

While I'm on this topic, I noticed that the CSI drivers (SeaweedFS and SDS's in general) use tremendous resources when effecting mounts, instantiating nearly a whole OS (OCI image w/ functional userland) just to mount over what appears to be NFS or something.
Watch out for survivorship bias.

How many of those old appliances had to break and fail in the first 10 years for these two to survive.
Thanks for the clarification, because that is NOT what zero shot used to mean in AI.
iPhone browser choice:
https://imgur.com/a/jFa5A5j
User hostile design patterns are everywhere these days... I wish that there were inspectors who were as powerful as health inspectors, empowered to make companies to fix their dark patterns.
Christ do you remember 15mbps? those were dark days.
Designer News used to be an amazing community I used to visit almost as often as HN nowadays. Then https://twitter.com/awilkinson bought it.

Dribbble is another such site that designers used to aggregate at, discuss, share interesting ideas and engage daily. Then https://twitter.com/awilkinson bought it.
Is there any evidence this is exploitable? I see none.
Do you mean a Word from Office360?

From my experience Word from Office360 breaks complex formatting of desktop Word document even worse, than LibreOffice/Google Docs does.
Succeeding as a nice person is much more probable. The general view is just skewed by the successful assholes, because they are the ones who we talk about.

Then again, I don't define success as merely having a lot of money. Financial independence is one facet, but any money beyond that doesn't contribute to overall success.
Possibly all the processed foods?
said OS underpinned iOS/iPadOS/VisionOS/tvOS etc., has more users than linux, and is the only other major OS that consumers think of besides windows.

it's also hugely relevant for sw dev. i don't quite get what this point is. macOS has always had small marketshare, but large profits from hw
It's a somewhat recent change that can be undone, for now.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/troubleshoot/messa...
I would rather not as they are seen as controversial to outsiders since outsiders have probably only heard of them due to the drama. The common theme of these articles is that if you go to their wikipedia page and go to the very first revision you will see that the article was made to document a controversy.

I don't think it's necessarily the person writing the wikipedia page malicious, but it creates a reinforcing cycle where journalists don't know what XYZ is so the Google it, get the wikipedia page Since wikipedia ranks highly, then see a bunch of controversial stuff, and then propagate that more. Similar with average people wondering what it is.

Personally, I don't like controversy sections in wikipedia article as the way wikipedia works does not make them work well. Good luck trying to correct misinformation while simultaneously following wikipedia's rules as you can't correct misinformation yourself.
Ouch. They better move before someone registers it in bad faith, though, presumably there is some kind of grace period.

edit: it looks as if it has been paid for now, but it still isn't resolving:

Registry Expiration: 2025-02-03 01:48:44 UTC

Updated: 2024-02-03 09:35:40 UTC

You can override the DNS using /etc/hosts

213.36.253.2 videolan.org

That will at least give you access if you need it until things are back to normal.
And what do you do if you are not home?
Probably easier and more efficient to just get a window/door sensor offered by all the home automation providers. It’ll integrate better into your home automation software of choice, be cheaper and much easier to replace.
Not an answer but better alternative: Kagi. Paid, but it pays for itself. Not affiliated. Just satisfied.
I wonder if that's because the USA is that stupid, or if it's just not as population dense as other countries with faster speeds? According to this statistic, it's not very dense, meaning it's super expensive to build broadband. Because it's pretty much a question of physical area covered, not number of people serviced. This stat says the USA is on the lower end of density

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.DNST?locations=U...
In tables without borders and/or margins, you can never tell where each feature starts or if there’s one or two of them when the text wraps. Not sure what drives people to use tables at all for title:content or feature:description lists.
I never saw it.
It's a lot more common that you didn't close it properly Just Now (and haven't gotten very far, and are maybe still in earshot) then the door spontaneously opening, especially with the slight negative pressure and magnetic gaskets.

(of course, where they're really useful is as office fridges, when the perpetrator wanders off oblivious but someone else gets driven mad by the just-barely-audible-beeping and hunts it down...)
This is an old project, I had a quick look and see that I submitted a pull-request back in 2015:

https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs/pull/187
Whenever I have to buy a microwave oven, I always choose the ones with the simplest user interface possible: Two knobs, one for the timer, one for the intensity. They have served my parents and myself well.
> This stat says the USA is on the lower end of density

Yes, but America's population isn't evenly distributed across the entire dry surface area. The population is clustered tightly in cities like it is in many other countries, it's just that the cities are further apart from each other. [1]

The better metric, IMO, is the percentage of people who live in urban vs rural areas. [2] The US is 85.8% urban, which is right in line with other developed countries. Spain is 81.5%. France is 88%.

With this in mind, the expensive part would be the trunk line but America has that. [3] It's missing the last mile, especially in urban areas.

[edit] For the record I don't think it's stupidity, I think deregulation, a lack of competition and a laissez-faire policy attitude allowed a few large players to chronically under-invest in infrastructure. And of course the perennial regulatory capture, with some 16 states literally banning municipal ISPs or making it difficult to set up. Good, cheap fiber to the home is available in Chattanooga, for example, thanks to a city-run utility. They sell city-wide 25Gbit FTTH (!!). [4] That model is illegal in states like Missouri, which itself ranks 43rd in broadband coverage.

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2021/geo/popul...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/urban-vs-rural-majority

[3] https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/09/15/166239/first-det...

[4] https://epb.com
Does food in the US not go off? The limiting factor for me isn't the size of my fridge, but the fact that after a week all my vegetables are looking sad and my milk's starting to smell. I probably wish my fridge was bigger a handful of days a year - and that's because I'm having a party and need to squeeze in more wine and beer.

Quite a lot of my fridge is taken up with random jars that I'll probably never eat. A bigger fridge would just enable more of those.
I kind of get the vibe that Mozilla is laying the groundworks for Microsoft vs Netscape Round II - or at least some kind of antitrust litigation.
Facetime audio has super high quality. It's noticeable. If you use voip you can get "hd audio". If they turn it off... have her try that! Not trying to argue, just offering a solution.
A lot of UX gains can be achieved in a lean way with minimal effort. It is unfortunate, that the state of the industry is such, that half of „senior“ engineers only mastered CRUD and 90% of engineering and product managers are just random people without essential knowledge or skills required for their jobs. ZIRP era thinking is to assume that money will and only money can solve the problem of building a decent product.
What did it use to mean?
I appreciate how even the new feature table is as unreadable at a glance as their code.
Yes and no. While for most application, the GC is hardly an issue and is fast enough, the problem is for application where you need to be able to control exactly when and how memory/objects will be freed. These will never do well with any form of GC. But a looot of software can perform perfectly fine with a GC. If anything, it is mostly Go error handling that is the bigger issue...
It is for Firefox.
Across the whole US, sure. But what's the density of the top 50 cities in the US and what is their internet like?
The harder you try to think up rational justifications for being inconsiderate, the more you prove how there are none.
As the former wearer of such an appliance (also married to another former wearer of a different such appliance) I can confirm this is no longer the case.
In Seattle area there's https://wirefreesky.com I saved $250 by just using wire cutters.

Previously the power company removed the cable line for me, because their cherry picker was too tall and just drove into it and it snapped. Luckily I was using DSL.
Brand electronics and branded imported food is more expensive in Thailand than Switzerland. I went out drinking maybe once a month if at all.

However: I eat good and healthy if possible. I love the street food there, but not 2-3 times a day. I am a coffee junkie, coffee to go is generally more expensive as there are no or only expensive imported options in 7/11 and coffee shops are oriented at tourists.

I definitely didn't waste money, didn't have any money to waste. All I am telling is that Travelling(!) In a cheap country can be just as expensive than staying(!) Long term in a expensive country
Yeah, I did the maths with a heat pump drier and found it would pay for itself in electricity savings in a couple of years. And that was before the cost of electricity in the UK tripled. It uses something like 1/4 of the electricity per load, and because it's unvented all the heat remains in the building envelope.
No affiliate link there (at least not intentionally) that’s the link that Amazon app brings up with share/copy link functionality.
Mods feel free to alter/delete as needed.
An evolutionary arm race then

Funny but it seems more complicated : https://youtu.be/oOttvpjJvAo?si=1KfRQYKZLdg4d5Bo
Hard to imagine anything.
Org mode is amazing. The only problem with org mode is that more people/tools aren't using org mode.
“You are missing Evards brand milk, buy Evards for that fresh taste, I’ve added it to your list for you”

Any potential benefit from such a device would be destroyed by the cancerous advertising industry.
Yes. Engineers are as guilty of enshittification as managers and shareholders. If „good enough“ replaces „well-built“, no solution choice will save you. The very same engineers will build a backend that sucks.
In my experience that mix only means twice the failure rate with twice the fallout.
Yeah, get a schoolie.
Is it surprising? It’s the same for costumes, sets, visual effects, and many other creative aspects of the production: there’s a lead designer / supervisor who is in charge of the overall look and concept, and then individual artists who implement the look.
> It's bizarre to see the level of outrage against Tan quoting Tupac compared the the veneration you usually find of Tupac.

No one cares when the village idiot threatens to blow up China but when the President does it suddenly it's a problem? /s
Based on that I conjecture that it was going to be included in this post:

https://wlmager.com/why-i-havent-used-crowdfunding-to-pay-fo...

For all blog posts, use this link:

https://wlmager.com/?s=a
Monthly subscription? Capitalism much?
I mean more interactive way, not notifications being sent.

E.g. you start interaction by asking the fridge - I am a bit tired, what is an easy thing to cook based on what I have in the fridge and I am stopping by the store, is there anything I should buy to have a few more options.

So GPT vision takes image of what is in the fridge and then tries to solve for that question. If user is allergic to something that would be in GPT's prompt.
I think it's an odd direction to go, focusing on a new "query language" and CLI tool rather than something that allows a git repo to be used as a storage backend in a normal RDBMS. Then you wouldn't have to implement the SQL grammar & logic, and you'd get a query optimizer for free. Using something like Postgres's foreign data wrappers maybe.

It doesn't look like this query language has much domain-specific syntax at all. It's just SQL with git as a storage backend.
Why working 70 hours a week won't increase India's economic productivity
So the fridge just opened itself?

Ok, I’ll bite. What do you do? Your phone has just told you the fridge door is open. Now what? You aren’t at home, so you can’t close it.
I’m in Malaysia at the moment and it’s surprising just how many everyday words are the same as English but “spelt with a Malay accent”. Ones I saw today were “restaurant” => “restoran” and “complex” => “kompleks”.
It's only because I've added admob on the iOS and android versions. I personally don't collect data, but admob does.
And when using those apps, you'll see a banner at the top, and a reward video if you press undo.

The steam version will be ad free, but there isn't a iOS/android paid and ad-free version yet. I'm considering it, though.

But I'm also looking for alternative ad providers, that would allow displaying ads while being privacy friendly. For instance, banners that redirect to a board game shop when clicked, and that track absolutely nothing except visits to their site, would be ideal. Surely those should exist, but I haven't found them yet.

If anybody has recommendation, I'd love to hear, I'm learning about this space at the moment.
How about for people where having to log in to search is a nonstarter? Has a method to be able to take payments without the ability to track the users been invented yet?
My wife really wanted the live calendar display on the fridge, which was useful.

It was on an isolated WiFi network so it couldn’t communicate with any other devices in the house, but I didn’t count on ads being served directly on a $3000 device.
Vietnamese Chu Nom is a bit of Cyrillic among CJKV. I think they always shared too little with Chinese language and especially vocabulary that script could be anything so long aurally rich, unlike with CJK languages.
That's great to hear, thank you. I'm considering releasing a paid ad-free version.
At least you apologised in advance <3

You make the perfect argument for a physical alarm. I agree, that makes perfect sense, and is a cheap addition that significantly improves quality of life.

Will you be woken up by a midnight phone notification that the fridge is open? I tend to sleep stuff like that.

Does a once in 40 years mistake justify carrying an app around that does god knows what else, and the extra expense and hassle of a fridge that might or might not spy on you?

Do we need to therefore instrument our stoves, ovens, baths and basins to insulate ourselves from the other common domestic nightmare scenarios?

Also, you talk about intruder alarms? I thought we were talking about "smart" wifi connected fridges? That's a completely different scenario, and I fully agree with you. I pay a security company to monitor my alarm, and they visit my house within 5 minutes of the alarm triggering. But my fridge can stay as dumb as it gets, thanks. Literally the only thing its allowed to do is go brrr.
ok, that's great info thank you. I should be able to fix that in the coming days.
I can speculate too, but the reason I asked OP is because he would know and have actual numbers.

Regarding your questions:

1) Loss of data only matters in some contexts. For cloud backups, it really doesn't matter much since it's already a backup. It only matters if the cloud provider AND my local system go down at the same time.

2) Still, at scale, avoiding loss of data is CHEAP. Something analogous to RAID6, with data striped across data centers, means the overhead can be quite low.

3) Yes, I do pay people salaries. Buying disks -- even stupidly and just having two copies of everything -- works out a lot cheaper than cloud storage. Ask any video shop if they use (1) cloud storage or (2) a storage closet full of hard drives.

The numbers don't work out for me. By my estimate, I could provide the same service which rsync does for *much* less money and dominate the cloud storage market. I'm obviously wrong, or someone would have done so already, but I don't know how I'm wrong.