skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All my appliances are mid-century or older. Parts are simple and easily fabricated if necessary. Having a restored 85-year-old refrigerator (compressor and refrigerant still original) in active use, it's amazing how efficient it actually is. It's manual defrost, but doesn't need defrosting all that often either.

Reading about the failing condenser fan and compressor reminded me of these items, worth watching again:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32462954

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20856036
Biggest number of edits could mean “exhaustively converged on the truth” or could mean “best funded and/or most doggedly persistent wins”.
Anecdotally, I haven't seen any notable difference between the enterprise edition I have at work and the pro I have at home. I don't use Windows that much, actually, so I'm fine with Edge. Even so, I get the feeling that every other day it's trying to get me to "improve my experience by using Edge" or some such.

The best part is the "let's get you connected" or whatever crap it says when you first start it. I often connect to fresh VMs over RDP, so it's always a joy to get to sit through the crappy stuttering animations just so I can tell it to leave me alone.
Which is annoying, as there are various GC systems that are near, or even equal to, performance of comparable non-GC systems.
(I personally blame Java for most of this)
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You guys are just discussing different points. OP comment was about being something like index functionality being available at all in a vcs (or git frontend). Yours is about how working with that index functionality is a one step operation while with git it is two (add + commit).

I happen two think that two steps are better. If every new and changed file is automatically included in the next commit this will just lead to more devs not caring about properly splitting up changes into logical and related commits. Just commit everything in a single commit, push, home time! For those people the two step process seems a needless waste. For me it's to encourage devs to only add related changes into a single commit.
It seem even funnier. From my research.

The "side by side" standard US frige is what we call in France American fridge because it has two door and look so oversized and fancy compared to the standard fridge in france.

The US "french-door fridge" take the oversizing a step further by adding a third door on the bottom of the "side by side" design. We don't even have a name for theses fridges as nobody buy theses, so I guess we'd call them big American fridge.

Symmetrically EU "regular fridge" probably don't sell in the US because it's perceived as too small. An thus is probably called small/tiny fridge.
> The rush job was the UK launch of the ZX Spectrum 128, now known as the Toast Rack because of the lake heatsink bolted on the side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ZX_Spectrum128K.jpg

The heat sink fins really add to the aesthetic, and that looks so cool for a small home computer in 1985, who could complain.

(The black NeXT cube wasn't for another few years, and it also cost a prohibitive sum for most homes.)
I've done more than my fair share of washer repair over the years. I have benefited from Whirlpool reusing the same basic design in a half-a-dozen brands and 40 years. There are some minor differences in the last washer we had and the current one, but it's basically the same wash basin, the same agitator, the same gearing system. I've watched enough videos on youtube that have taught me the ins and outs of that machine. I don't want it to have any more features. I just hope they don't stop making parts for it.

My oven on the other hand - it's a GE Cafe slide-in dual-oven. I'm very happy with it. And I know how much people here rail against it, but I like being able to preheat it, turn it off remotely. Of course, baking is a hobby for me, so I wanted the extra oven.
I understand what papers are and I accept that they naturally end up being how they are.

Even if you study textbooks, which themselves suffer the same fate, requiring other textbooks or knowledge of terms and notation as prerequisites, and have knowledge in the field it doesn't mean you can understand most papers. Fields and subfields have their own (obscure) terminology and notation, often individual practitioners do. Even if they don't terminology and notation isn't used consistently, which becomes critical when you're trying to learn and understand.

I'm just lamenting how inscrutable this knowledge is and how sad and frustrating that is. Most of this stuff is not that complicated once you know what they're actually talking about. Instead you end up banging your head against the wall for hours trying to divine the intent of the author or go on endless yak shaving expeditions trying to nail down terms and concepts.
I wouldn't call syscall (and strace) knowledge, "hardware knowledge". It's mostly about OS knowledge. You can go a long way with strace without knowing how a PCI bus work or other hardware details.

Which brings me to another point.

Virtualization ensured you could decouple (to an extent) the behavior of an operating system from the actual hardware used underneath. Therefore, some hardware knowledge is often ignored, but you still need to know about the OS.

With containers, you are decoupling the application from the host operating system! Which means some OS knowledge is often ignored.

That said, abstractions can be leaky. Most of the time and in the most common scenarios, you can ignore the lower level details. No one develops a simple website thinking about NUMA cores or C-state transitions. But if you want to really squeeze every ounce of performance, or if if you run very complicated systems, then you still need to peek at the lower levels from time to time. Which means looking at the hypervisors for virtual machines (assuming you can... on public cloud you cannot), or looking at the operating system for containers.
After slurping up customer emails into their servers without asking, I give it maybe 12 months until this happens
Sounds great!

Now I only need to wait 10 years until all the hidden but crucial bugs are found (at the massive loss of real data, ofc) before I'm ready to use it,

like with every new piece of technology...

Or what should give me the confidence that it isn't so?
Aww I'm glad it helped! I wanted to illustrate the amount of upkeep it takes to even keep a machine that was already about 99% working from disrepair.

I think you could give the offer a shot, but it looks like the market is a good bit higher - the bigger the discount the more you're probably going to have to work to get it operational. It looks like you've already got a headstart on that, so if none of this is scaring you off, I say do it! My two machines are Whitestar and Spike2 systems, and are from Stern, which is still operating. My concern going for Party Monsters would be that System 11(B?!) boards and replacement parts may be in short supply, and I can't comment on the quality of documentation for it all.

Looking at pinside though, between the owner thread and system 11 thread, there are probably more than enough helpful folks who will have good advice for you if you take on the project.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/elvira-and-the-party...
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/system-11-club

Watch out though - I see posts about mods in the game thread. My newer machine came with 6-7 already installed by the first owner, which got me hooked. At this point I've added another 25 or so... I think I spend as much time working on these machines as I do playing them (but my goal is to make my own machine, so every piece of work comes with learnings and better understanding of what's in store for me.)

Post back here later and let me know what you end up doing!
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> Today correcting a typo might trigger a full-time editor to defend his turf. Even asking questions about an uncited assertion on a talk page can be labeled as disruptive.

This doesn't align with my experience. From what I've seen, the consensus is that the majority of edits from an IP user are constructive, and they're not reverted simply because they're from an IP user. I've seen data about this[1], but for fun I looked at a page I've edited recently. Out of the last 50 edits, 13 were from IP users (26%), and only 4 of them were vandalism (30% of IP edits).

You are right that some people entrench into a "turf" and revert things for no reason. This is an old problem on Wikipedia. But this is pretty rare across the site from my experience. And I have seen people get warnings for this behavior. If someone was reverting simple typo fixes or discussions on a Talk page I would expect something to happen to that user, regardless if it was against an IP user or not.

That's not to say there are no advantages to having an account. Creating new pages, uploading files, and editing semi-protected pages require an account. Some articles require pretty strict criteria to edit, your account has to be at least 30 days old with 500 edits (which is more than I have). This list is around 7000 articles[2] which is more than I expected.

^1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_editors_are_human...

^2: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Protected...
Why? Just close the door properly. Ajust the feet so the fridge stands on a slight angle, so the door swings shut on it's own.

What help is a temperature alarm if you are away. A fridge is used daily, surely you'll notice if the temperature is not what it's supposed to be.
What’s the different between files, objects, blobs and data lake?
It's kind of funny too, since of all those languages (besides Chinese), Vietnamese is the most suited to the Chinese characters, being isolating.

That said, they probably also had the easiest time abandoning them because there was never any real formalisation of how to write Vietnamese, as opposed to Literary Chinese, whereas in both Korea and Japan, people were writing their vernacular language in Chinese characters, or derived scripts, for centuries. Vietnam of course having chu Nom and other systems of writing vernacular, but not to the same degree as Korea or Japan did.
Did he clean the condenser and replace the door seal? Dirty/clogged condensers and leaky door seals have a huge effect on efficiency.

Also, if his is not a chest freezer, that's another big difference --- a chest freezer is inherently better if opened often, since the cold air stays at the bottom, whereas in an upright one, it spills out.
Thanks! A friend recommended Gaspard Noe’s Irreversible and I will keep those lessons in mind
It definitely seems like there needs to be a vested financial interest, where a larger and highly profitable organization like YCombinator and its portfolio of companies, are willing to fund operating costs.

I feel for dang sometimes here on HN, it's far too much workload for a single individual - even with the crowdsourced mechanisms (which I don't think are designed well) to help facilitate his work managing the moderation of HN.

I think YC could afford to drop more $ on forum moderation to improve efforts, however the organization seems fairly conservative in nature, and HN has changed a lot in the last 3-5 years from where it was before that; and it's frowned upon in the rules to even mention what I believe is one of the primary factors for that, giving an overpowered weight to users to influence posts' and comment visibility who aren't necessary that critical in their thinking, are more reactive than responsive - and so I'm uncertain if or how many years it may take for the same concentration of higher quality conversations on the whole, relatively speaking from the past and now, to return.
I had the same experiance after a automated home espresso coffee machine broke down.

I compared many machines to that of a mocca spanish/italian espresso maker. Simple design as simple can be.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moka_pot

Advocate US navy KISS design principle.

Are a smart phone smart when it distracts you from close ones?

Smart devices can get hacked
Dumb devices much harder. Which is more secure old CRT or new smart tv?

Same goes for IT shiny new complicated thing or simple kiss thing.
A decade or so ago, we had an ice storm take out power for much of the town for five days. Because the copper pair was still intact and powered by the central office, we never lost phone service.

This week, after heavy rain, the copper lines, which one technician said had cheap paper insulation, stopped working. A different technician got outgoing calls working again, but incoming calls (the higher voltage ring signal) were still failing, and AT&T told their technician not to fix it. We were forced to transfer our service to fiber, which was already present for internet. The AT&T fiber router can drive our existing handsets, with replacement crawlspace wiring reasonably priced.

My UPS lasts 90 minutes, nowhere near five days. Sometime over the next year, I'll probably get a Generac attached to our gas line - the tree canopy makes solar impractical.

I'm lucky that I can afford these worse alternatives. Many can't.

Enshittification is seeping into the physical layer.
Want to add a story from my parents here: they also are diehard Miele fans, and when their dishwasher broke a few years ago, they went Miele again. Unfortunately it broke six months in. The Miele repair tech came in, asked what program they usually run, and they replied they just turn it on and press start. That meant they always run the ECO mode that's taking ages because it's running at low temp and little water.

The repair guy told them that the thing breaking was their own fault since the manual clearly started you need to run one of the other modes every X cycles if you normally do ECO, otherwise all the internal tubes gunk up. They got a rebate on a new one, but they refused to replace it. I'd been done with Miele at that point, but they just bought a new one. How a company known for quality and engineering can't implement a simple logic that the device would automatically use more water/temperature every X runs, or at least show a warning on the display, is beyond me.

Oh, and the new one, according to my parents at least, occasionally just stops in the middle of the washing cycle and they need to restart it. But I wouldn't rule out that this is some sort of user error. Maybe you just shouldn't go with the model that has a dozen buttons and knobs when you're 80. :)
What Happened to Videolan.org?
I regularly visit that site. But it just vanished. From the DNS too.

If it were the site to properly cook pastiera, I would mind no more. But that is supposed to be the house of videolan!
Yeah and he lied.
Samsung in particular, perhaps more than any other large consumer goods company, has a culture of "fakery" as a core part of their business.

It's not one guy, some aberration, or an isolated incident.

They have never hesitated to use smoke and mirrors to sell their products. If they were horse breeders, then they'd be the type to dye the horse's hair black and put a pepper up its bum to make it more "lively".

This is at the forefront of my mind because I was just over at a friend's place, trying to show him a 4K HDR video of a recent trip that I've uploaded to YouTube.

On my Sony TV, it looks spectacular, if I must say so myself. I can't take credit, really, it's the camera. It's an expensive DSLR, and it doesn't do any image fakery. I also mixed in some footage from an iPhone using ProRes mode. You can barely tell that that clip was shot with something that fits in my pocket!

On his Samsung flagship TV it looks... bad. Garish. Over-sharpened to the point that hair flickers as it moves because of the aliasing artefacts.[1] Colors are blown out to the point that they can't be distinguished, even if they were originally different. The brightness is boosted so high that normal scenes make you squint. Everything has Pop! Glare! Bang! Glitz! ... like a circus lit up at night. It's a clown show.

Other brands take pride in their televisions being calibrated to show the creative intent and the subtleties that modern visual artworks can achieve.

Samsung cranks everything to 11 so that their TV stands out amongst the competitors' models in the store.

The moon thing is the same. They know that the majority of the consumers aren't literate enough in photography to know the futility of photographing a tiny celestial object with a wide angle lens, so they fake it because it keeps phone sales high.

At the end of the day, they sell more products as a consequence of these decisions. Customers vote with their wallets, but most voters are dumb. It's as simple as that.

[1] It's a slightly older model, which I'm guessing had its sharpening tuned to 24fps movies in an era when most 4K movies were upscaled from 2K, so hair was generally blurry. Now that hobbyists are producing 4K 60fps home videos downscaled from 8K sensors, every hair is sharply defined out of the camera, so the TV overdoes things and the result is trash.
> Everything they talk about in this article is what is great about the _rest_ of the commit message, which, given modern tools, is _almost never_ seen by anyone.

This was why I created gh-ph [1].

[1] https://github.com/Frederick888/gh-ph
> when a new user adopts a declarative schema management tool, they need some way of dumping their existing database schema to the filesystem as a set of CREATE statements.

Got it. Yeah - tbh I hadn't thought about that, but declarative tables never been on my radar (for the reasons mentioned).

> Skeema just doesn't support renames directly at all

Right! that's one way to deal with it! :)

> there's no way to deploy an application change at the same exact moment as the RENAME is executed in SQL

I guess it depends on your ops environment, but I don't think renames are special; any schema update can be incompatible with client code if you're not careful. That said, in the systems I've worked with (telco and saas), the schema upgrade has always run with applications stopped - the migration code is shipped with the server application, and run as part of its startup sequence. Even if there are multiple clients, the only requirement is that they are all stopped before the upgraded processes start. (This is something you can delegate to K8s for example).

I think the interesting thing is that there are such very different approaches to schema upgrades. Skeema and pgpkg obviously have different views about how migrations should be managed, despite the fact that you (presumably) and I have both done many tens of thousands of them over the years.

One important difference, as you mention, is that PG has transactional DDL - which really changes the game in terms of how you can think about upgrades. pgpkg is deliberately PG specific; it will never support any other kind of database, because the assumptions it makes are invalid in most other systems.
Yes, but how often do you experience power outages or other things that lead to weird temperature changes? I think in the last 15 years it only happened to me once.

And how often does a fridge door open on its own? Most people don't need other people (or things) to remind them that they should tie their shoes before getting out. If you don't need that, I assume you know you should close the fridge door.
Almost 10 years ago - when I bought our current 50" TV - one reason was that large computer screens were unaffordable, bad to look at from angles, or both. I recently checked, and seems nowadays you'd be able to get decently large 4k-screens at similar cost than a TV. Just add a PC or whatever media players you want.
10 Years ago there was the so called Perl Renaissance.
Which should turn Perl around. Sad truth is.
People already moved on.
Everything to little to late and not what the people where looking for.
Well, this is Europe's chemical industry going towards cheap energy.
I wonder where the "French door" moniker came from. Lived in France my whole life and never encountered one.
Glass door? How much energy does it need?
> garbage disposal ... encourages people to put through food waste

That's like saying bicycles encourage people to ride bicycles. It's supposed to encourage it. That's the literal purpose of a garbage disposal unit: "a device that shreds food waste into pieces small enough—generally less than 2 mm (0.079 in) in diameter—to pass through plumbing."[1]

> Some people create blockages for the entire stack or more

I don't know how that could happen since if you put something into a garbage disposal unit that can't be shredded to tiny particles, then it's the garbage disposal unit itself that will get clogged, not the pipes or drains. Whatever gets through the garbage disposal unit is going to be less than 2mm in size, and generally much smaller and liquified. If you're referring to oil or grease buildup in pipes, that is irrelevant to the use of a garbage disposal unit since people can and do pour oil or grease down the drain whether they have a garbage disposal unit or not.

In my opinion, a garbage disposal unit is an under-appreciated and supremely useful kitchen appliance, and extremely environmentally friendly (see the brief Wikipedia explanation[2]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_disposal_unit

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_disposal_unit#Rational...
Software does infinitely more now than before and there's way more of it - is there some specific aspects of it you think is going downhill or you're asking about? You could always point to examples like Google search quality subjectively getting worse or video streaming/AI becoming way better but "software quality" doesn't seem very well defined. And hardware's improved a lot too so now we can have awesome things like electron that let you make desktop apps using web technologies which is very cool. Flash is dead (still sad about flash games tho) so we've got html 5 and stuff making the web way better too. Just the level of accessibility means so much more software that does so much more - a lot might be poor quality but then you also get things like figma and zoom and slack and discord that are all very good.
I wonder where the "French door" moniker comes from. Lived in France my whole life and never saw one there.
Games don't get more fun with more fidelity, minecraft and terraria are very low fidelity but still fun. Fidelity improves other aspects, but not the "fun" part. Audio feedback and visual feedback are very important for fun though, like the knocking you hear when hitting things in minecraft and blopping from picking things up, but it is better to try to make things fun without that at first since those can make just clicking around in a forum fun.
yeah Mozilla never complains about harmful design on chromebooks. Strange!
I've switched to the golang ecosystem for a couple years now and I have to say, I like it. I didn't like a lot of the opinions that golang enforces upon you at first, but the quality of software all adheres to the single, upstream, standard codestyles, standard unit tests, standard build system etc.

The beauty of it is that a lot of golang devs at some point to decide to build pure golang libraries for performance gains (especially in the networking area I am working in) and I love it.

There's a lot of very well maintained libraries out there, and golang.org/x package is just the start.
Yes another chest freezer - and yes that usage is pretty good for a freezer of that age - when I've tested other brewers set-ups they can be even worse (but that is often when they've clad them in wood - looks cool but stops the freezer cooling properly...)

I'll get them to check it is clean, but I'll assume it is as he's pretty on top of that sort of thing.
Hell Chickens
If you look at the job threads on HN you'll see a huge number of Europeans (and otherwise non-US persons), many of whom likely make less than $100k+. This isn't 2015, HN has quite a broad non-SV audience now.