skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Furthermore, once a front loader starts, it locks the door to prevent water spillage, but this prevents you from throwing in extra items that you found or taking items out part way through.

Even if you ignore the European top-loaders with a horizontal drum (which are basically just like US top-loaders except more efficient, smaller, and that don't destroy clothes with elastics) that's not been true for decades.

Front loaders only have a few periods where water goes above the level of the door opening, and at any other moment you can pause the washing and open the door.

They might cost more in the US, I guess, new front loaders in the EU are cheaper (200-300€ for the base models that work fine and don't have WiFi or whatever) than what I could find when I lived in Canada though (which were more around 500-600 CA$ iirc) but nothing is really comparable.

And... they don't smell bad?

Frankly the most important difference to me is this central axis in American top-loaders and which clothes wrap themselves and which always ends up destroying elastics. But I think it's necessary for mixing the clothes, sunbed unlike frint loaders gravity hinders mixing rather than helps it.
That URL loaded for me fine in FF 122.0.1 ....
For the same reason that Skiff is being acquihired: it has simply proven to not be a viable business.

The reason Notion acquires and kills this product is not because it is in any way an interesting product or company to them but because it has investors that need bailing out that are also Notion investors. Notion gets some nice people in their team and some of them might even stay.

This is a very common practice in silicon valley. VC funded companies fail all the time. Instead of letting them go bankrupt, investors and founders swap shares and walk away with an "exit" in their pocket. Everybody wins.
Nearly every post that sings the Vision’s praises mentions a kind of unwavering belief in a Moore’s Law of technological progress, which is very magical thinking that is not truly based on data but merely recency bias.

The reality is that the challenges facing a better vision pro are much, much more difficult than the ones for early personal computing and smartphones. Some of these obstacles are outright technical. The Vision Pro is clearly best in class but the next iteration is going to take some significant technological leaps forward, some of which (screen latency) are physically insurmountable.

The obstacles are cultural. When an iPhone showed up, there wasn’t much zeitgeist against using a computer or a blackberry too much. But there’s since been a lot of conversation about the nature of these tiny sceeens we keep drawing closer and closer to our eyes.

I can see the Vision Pro becoming a tool for professionals, in the same space a dual monitor setup occupies.

But AR/VR is such a viscerally compelling experience that think there may be an extensive backlash on all personal devices as a result, particularly as usage relates to young people.

There’s just a lot of tough challenges ahead of adopting and I think hand waving these away due to “progress” is a little naive.
Hybrid Bonding Process Flow – Advanced Packaging Part 5
How would you approach this problem https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/issues/55?

There is a library called `pyasn1`, the author passed away and there are some challenges, such as intimidatingly long error messages that are not easy to interpret, or counter-intuitive behaviour of some of the functions in its API.

Do you have any tips for approaching this with the few resources that are available?
Braid Erlang library to create and connect an arbitrary cluster of nodes
> Boggles the mind that you would use a different format

My understanding is that Winer's main interest has always been outliners, and RSS etc. were just fortunate side excursions, so I find it about as boggling as the phenomenon that people with hammers are likely to be pushing Open Nail Markup Languages.
They're display devices, they don't need their own operating system.

Microsoft's problem was actually that they did what you're talking about - Mixed Reality had all of these nonsense things microsoft built into it that didn't improve the experience and just put barriers in front of using the device to play games or whatever.

When you plugged in the headset it would automatically pop up mixed reality whether you wanted it to start or not. I couldn't keep mine plugged in and not running reliably. It would restart mixed reality at random times.

When you logged in instead of a well designed menu system, they made it stupidly spatial and you had this virtual house where functions were in different rooms you had to navigate to instead of just letting me start the application I wanted. It had a whole new set of widgets and interactions. A lot of designers got paid to create little toys that didn't improve the experience at all and just complicated things.

And microsoft's own device wasn't aimed at consumers and cost more than the vision pro, so you were buying HP or some other 3rd party's implementation microsoft's of mixed reality on windows.

It was fine to play games but not an improvement over steamvr.
I think almost everyone except the most poisonous libertarians agree that there is some point at which thing tip into the realm of public health.

Look at cigarette companies denying for so long that their product caused cancer (or at one point claiming it was good for pregnant women). Or the sale of assault rifles and their use in mass shootings. Or a less controversial one- that suicide rates were lowered when they changed the type of gas in people’s homes.

I think as a society we can always collectively decide that regulating something might be for the public good. Sometimes we’re even correct about it.
If combatting the enshittification of the internet keeps making things turn back 23 years like this, I'm all for it.

I'd like:

- my 2001 hairline

- my 2001 waistline

- plenty of notice not to fuck up an opportunity like I did in 2007

Thanks, magic time loop of rediscovery!
There's also Riverqueue https://github.com/riverqueue/river
This event was subject matter for the book "The Power Of Habit" by Charles Duhigg - demonstrating that you can learn a lot from peoples habits, even if they are only shopping habits. Quite an interesting story, which also discusses the father of advertising Claude C. Hopkins.
Go Composable Iterator Functions
Sometimes I feel I am the only person in the world who likes XML. It just followed the trajectory of all formats, where it is used in places it shouldn't have been used.

It is moderately readable and writable, and the tooling is great. Whenever I have to write it Emacs verifies the doctype for me and handles the structural part of it.

And, as the document shows, xslt makes it easy as hell to scan the contents of a file.

OPML is a good example in my opinion. I used it maybe once a year and it has never failed me
If you look at cutaways of the hydrogen vehicles, there is an enormous amount of space used for tanks and the fuel cell etc. The battery layout could be closer to that of a Polestar 2 rather than the more common 'skateboard' battery pack. Not that it would be an easy project!
The author speculates that PCVR users are switching to the PSVR2. It seems much more likely that they are switching to the standalone Quest headsets, which have far higher sales numbers and exclusive AAA games like Asgard's Wrath 2. The graphics aren't as good as on PC or PS5, but not everything is about polygons.
In your case it sounds more viable to move to VMs instead of RDS, which some cloud providers also recommend.
> Hint: if you use passkeys for your personal Google account, do you actually think anyone at Google will be able to help you recover access when you lose them?

I mean, yes, but that's beside the point. What's more important is that I don't think anyone at Google would need to help me recover my account.

- I have multiple trusted devices signed in already, in addition to my phone

- I have a recovery phone number and recovery email set. In a situation where I lose my phone, I can get a new SIM card for the same phone number within hours.

- I have my TOTP key saved on another device besides my primary phone. (Though I have to admit that I didn't turn the backup phone on last year; I used to do it twice per year, so it's possible this doesn't work any more.)

- I have a set of 2FA recovery codes printed, and stored in a place where I'd know to look for them.

Now, obviously basically nobody else has all of that set up. Just having printed and knowing where the recovery codes are is like 99.99th percentile level of preparedness. But most of it is also totally unnecessary. In the last 10 years I've had one phone stolen and one that stopped working suddenly and irrevocably. In both cases just the stuff that basically everyone would have (getting a new SIM in one case, an existing session from a trusted device) was enough to get the account back into a good state.

Look, the people working on this stuff are neither idiots nor malicious. They understand that people lose stuff and forget stuff all the time, and they understand that the accounts can be very precious to the owners. So they try to make sure that as many people as possible have a way to recover their accounts. And as long as you haven't gone out of your way to make sure the account is unrecoverable, it'll work out fine.
GCP support is atrocious. I've worked at one of their largest clients and we literally had to get executives into the loop (on both sides) to get things done sometimes. Multiple times they broke some functionality we depended on (one time they fixed it weeks later except it was still broken) or gave us bad advice that cost a lot of money (which they at least refunded if we did all the paperwork to document it). It was so bad that my team viewed even contacting GCP as an impediment and distraction to actually solving a problem they caused.

I also worked at a smaller company using GCP. GCP refused to do a small quota increase (which AWS just does via a web form) unless I got on a call with my sales representative and listened to a 30 minute upsell pitch.
Maybe your TAM is different, but our regularly do presentations about cost breakdown, future planning and possible reservations. There's nothing distracting there.
Sorry I should be more careful with my words.

"Pathological" is one of those words that lives in both technical and
psychological space and I was careless. I meant the security
situation was pathological, not that the poster "is a nutter". My
apologies to OP.

If I am "attacking" anything it's this casual normalisation of
over-extending, invoking more complexity and solutionism and misplaced
trust in elaborate systems when simple everyday methods actually work
well enough for 99% of cases.
I agree that SQL Server has similar functionality but Service Broker is pretty clunky compared to LISTEN.
I can give you one bad experience example from a couple years back. Signed up to Protonmail to test out how well it works when you try to use it anonymously, paid for a year via crypto, then at some point stopped using it.

When I came back to it later, and my subscription had expired, instead of downgrading my account to the free version, they wouldn't allow me to access any of my emails until I renewed my account for another year.
Why are you assuming those hospitalizations and deaths happened indoor and inside homes where ceiling fans are installed?
Thanks for the links, I was wondering if SQL Server supports similar features.
I may be misunderstanding you, but how exactly is having autonomy over your phone any different over autonomy over anything else you own? Or are you consistently against people having any autonomy over their property?
Let’s say everyone in the world decides tomorrow it’s time to go to war with the climate crisis. Every leader in the world gave their full support and helped each other.

What would be step one?
Works on My Machine
Nvidia's Grace server CPU trades blows with AMD and Intel in detailed review
Its mostly hype and marketing trying to keep the lights on. They had a free ride over the past two years and as the budgets dwindle the good times are mostly over.
Ask HN: What has been your experience training and serving PyTorch models in AWS
Hello,

What’s your qualitative assessment of the platform?

What does your tool chain look like?

What does cost look like?

Thank you for your input.
> All of this expense goes away when they migrate to cloud.

Just to pay someone else enough money to provide the same service and make a profit while do it
Have you see the fuel price for those things? It’s obscene.

And it’s not like you can make your own fueling station at home. Doing so it an hilariously difficult engineering with plenty of potential to blow yourself up. I mean it’s easy to make hydrogen. It’s just difficult to make hydrogen at this scale and even when you do it still has to be compressed.

To build one in California costs 1.5-2m, and I actually found the company that owns the patent on the home hydrogen refueling system, but I imagine that’s not cheap enough to make up for the money saved on the car.

https://residentialhydrogenpower.com/product/sfha-model-300/
If a secure passphrase was used originally what is the security risk? I have 800+ accounts in my Bitwarden and I fear not as each password is long and randomly generated.
> Since the term's invention in 1973, it has become used to describe a brief or trivial item of news or information.

In the very first paragraph, in fact.
What a joy to read. It's this sort of infrastructure work that unlocks so many doors. Thank you Stephen!
10 years ago SQLite made a release dedicated to lots of microoptimisations that resulted in massive speed ups https://sqlite-users.sqlite.narkive.com/CVRvSKBs/50-faster-t...

Don't underestimate accumulation of small improvements.
You Need Landing Page Audits
FAA order points to another issue with the 737 MAX requiring extra inspections
$50 (price on amazon) is a lot for an amateur self published author book.

Thats tenured professor textbook money.

Pakt publishing books can be written by anyone with even a surface level understanding of a topic.
Devils advocate here - if you tax buses according to the road wear they cause they’d be nowhere near affordable…
Free Software Foundation shop is "temporarily closed"
As of this writing, the FSF shop is "temporarily closed" until "some time in 2024."

How weird is that?

Edit: the full text of the current landing page is (with links added in markdown format):

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The FSF appreciates your understanding and we hope to see you again in a few weeks; your [financial support](https://my.fsf.org/donate/) and purchases make an incredible difference for free software at this critical time. Thanks
> As for the security implications, if you want to hack the account to
some magazine I was subscribed to 10 years ago, supply new payment
details and reactivate my subscription, go wild.

Here. I suggest think again. There are many threat models where your
innocuous grocery account from 10 years ago is a useful stage to a
bigger hack. Can you remember all the details you entered there? Past
addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses?
What you seem to be saying is that Australians had gas that was artificially cheap because it wasn't being bought and sold at international market rates, and once that started happening and the market was no longer distorted by trade limitations, the fair market price was not longer attractive to Australian customers.

(Personally, I think all countries, to the extent that they can, ought to both reduce domestic fossil fuel use and at the same time impose strict limits on its export. We're all better off if it just stays in the ground.)
>> In the order, known as an airworthiness directive, the FAA said Thursday that an international 737 Max operator discovered loose bolts in the rudder control system on one of its planes in December.
Neither of them are a Ponzi scheme, we just have an epidemic of people misusing the term.
Heres a review from one of the other books by pakt and this author:

If you are an inexperienced programmer or new to Python/Jupyter/Anaconda DO NOT BUY THIS OR ANY OTHER PACKT Publishing book as the code contains errors that are difficult to rectify. Packt Publishing DOES NOT verify code like the CRC Press - for instance, Statistical Rethinking by CRC press - i.e. Bayesian Analysis in R - has code AND excellent content that is helpful for both the academic and practitioner. Also, the Packt Publishing description/outline of probability is weak, at best, and is confusing to many of my students.

If correcting Python code is not a big deal for you then Packt books are a nice intro. But why buy something that you have to fix before you can start working with it?

This is a December 2018 update - DO NOT BUY THIS OR ANY OTHER PACKT PUBLISHING BOOK UNLESS YOU CAN VERIFY THERE IS AN ERRATA FILE TO ACCOMPANY IT. PACKT PUBLISHING DOES NOT PRODUCE RELIABLE TEXTS. MY STUDENTS HAVE HAD A TERRIBLE TIME WITH THIS BOOK – THE COMPANY HAS NOT RESPONDED TO ANY QUESTIONS/REQUESTS - THE UNIVERSITY WHERE I TEACH IS NOW LOOKING CLOSELY AT THE VALIDITY OF THESE PUBLICATIONS.
If you manage to click on the correct image, you’ll get to this page [0]. Then you can find a link to the “interactive demo” [1]. Weirdly well hidden.

[0]: http://daslab.seas.harvard.edu/projects/evolution/

[1]: http://sigmod.dyndns.org:8000/app/#
A 12% overall improvement might be worthwhile. But you have to look at the bigger picture: if part A of your project takes 99.9% of the time, and part B takes 0.1% of the time, even a 100% improvement in part B (ie making it take 0 time) might not be worthwhile.
From the Deprecated Features page which is linked mentioning the Windows Mixed Reality item (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/deprecat...):

> Windows Mixed Reality is deprecated and will be removed in Windows 11, version 24H2. This deprecation includes the Mixed Reality Portal app, Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR, and Steam VR Beta. Existing Windows Mixed Reality devices will continue to work with Steam through November 2026, if users remain on their current released version of Windows 11, version 23H2. After November 2026, Windows Mixed Reality will no longer receive security updates, nonsecurity updates, bug fixes, technical support, or online technical content updates.

> This deprecation doesn't affect HoloLens. We remain committed to HoloLens and our enterprise customers

--

Some more HN discussion about it when it was announced back in December:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38762095
> NUCLEAR WEAPONS laboratories don’t often help solve serial-killer cases.

Because mass murder is their specialty...
ln is your friend
A front-loading machine can wash in 20 minutes, but you'll need to look outside European consumer appliances to find one. European efficiency goals mean the machine washes with the same water for longer. Without that requirement, you can use a lot more water and complete the wash faster.

To prevent mould growth around the gasket, leave the front door ajar after use.
Microsoft has no incentive to make good software. Most people will use it no matter what.
Pointless, time waste, unnecessary.

I love it!
Maybe a lot of things start in Python, because so many people know it, and no one wants to change languages after a project starts?

Python also has a very wide range of applications so while there are many languages more popular in a particular area, Python is extremely widely used in aggregate. By contrast it is unusual to write numerical code in PHP or web apps in C.
Microsoft owns your computer so your clipboard isn’t yours

I’m reminded of the 90s era Slashdot that had a Bill Gates of Borg icon for every Microsoft related article. Seems to be where they are headed
Yup. But from my expirance cmake only becomes useful when you want to compile something on multiple os-es. I have not compiled brplot on windows or on mac. Makefile is written with linux as host os in mind.

It'd be cool to have cmake build option. So that you could create vs proj on windows, xcode proj on mac.

I don't know what to think about vcpkg.
I wouldn't call it pretty well, not quite yet. The Monado driver has come a long way, but doing anything useful with it still has too much legwork involved for the majority of WMR users, not including the switch to Linux. Although since the announcement, work on WMR-specific stuff seems to have sped up, so hopefully the situation improves.

I also recall seeing a working demo of hand tracking for WMR (maybe just the G2?), so that's neat.

https://monado.freedesktop.org/ Monado OpenXR platform
https://stardustxr.org/ Stardust XR display server
> The argument for RDS seems to be “we can’t automate backups”. What on earth?

I can automate backups and I'm extremely happy they with some extra cost in RDS, I don't have to do that.

Also, at some size automating the database backup becomes non-trivial. I mean, I can manage a replica (which needs to be updated at specific times after the writer), then regularly stop replication for a snapshot, which is then encrypted, shipped to storage, then manage the lifecycle of that storage, then setup monitoring for all of that, then... Or I can set one parameter on the Aurora cluster and have all of that happen automatically.
The funny thing is a lot of smaller startups are seeing just how absurdly expensive these service are, and are just switching back to basic bare metal server hosting.

For 99% of businesses it's a wasteful, massive overkill expense. You dont NEED all the shiny tools they offer, they don't add anything to your business but cost. Unless you're a Netflix or an Apple who needs massive global content distribution and processing services theres a good chance you're throwing money away.
I managed to get beta access to the product. It is about 70-80% of what we planned to deliver on our MVP.

The thing is, we're still in the validation stage. We can abandon this idea completely without any harm. I'm not sure if what we managed to find is enough for us to decide to put our effort elsewhere or not
> A top loader can wash a load in 20 minutes; front loaders takes hours...

My front loader can complete a load in 15 minutes on its fastest setting, it can take hours, but only if you ask for it. There is no magic, the longer it takes, the better it cleans, no matter if it is a front or top loader. You choose the setting according to your needs. Also, with regular clothing, it makes very little noise except during the spin drying cycle. If it is behind a closed door, you can't hear it at all.

It is a rather recent model from Indesit, one of the most, if not the most popular budget brand in Europe. I paid 330€ for it, which is a typical entry-level price. Top loaders are almost non-existant here, so I can't say much about the price. The rest of the points are right.
I wasn’t sure who was right. I’ll tie break with https://wiki.c2.com/?StringlyTyped= which pretty much says what you just said
I think you’ll find far better answers than I can provide with a web search.
"Multiple applications sharing a database" and Kubernetes sound really funny together:)
I live in the New England and last year got a quote for replacing my existing boiler and furnace with two heat pumps. MassSave offers a good rebate program with $10k rebate. The problem is that the installers have bumped up the prices to the point where even after the rebate it would have costed me $35K. With that kind of price, and high electricity rates, I have no hope of saving money compared to my current setup.
⌘F "Haruhi" yields no results. Disappointed that they didn't even name the show!