skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally each vCPU is a dedicated hardware thread, which has gotten significantly faster in the last 10 years. Only lambdas, micros, and nanos have shared vCPUs and those have probably also gotten faster although it's not guaranteed.
> a rent-controlled apartment is pretty rare to actually come to the market

doesnt mean it's not being exchanged - it just means it's not "public", and the exchange is done privately therefore you dont hear about it.
I have solved many problems because of a blog post created by company that wanted to get their product name out there and I don't think they should be looked at negatively for doing that. Are upset whenever a companies tech blog lands on HN? Because it is virtually the same thing. If you use Kagi and come across a site that you find is low quality and spammy then just block it. That's the cool thing about using Kagi.
A good-faith deposit equal to a typical broker’s fee is WILD, very glad the unit worked out!
to every random daemon that macos 100% needs to run RIGHT NOW.
Message passing is neat, but every time I saw someone take advantage of its flexibility, it was a mess.

E.g. there was a Flickr API library that directly translated the message names into API calls. Very neat, but now a typo stops being a compiler error and becomes a failed API call.

Mostly it was used to bypass Apple's private API App Store restrictions by obfuscating message names in rot13 or something.
Gov.uk is probably one of the smoothest government websites I've ever seen, even when I used it a decade ago (they had just rebuilt it in Rails and I talked to the team behind it). Very thoughtful people behind it.
Ironically I would probably pay more for a dumber, but more reliable pipe.

My operator changed my modem, and its configuration is "easier than ever!" (says the manual). That is, you have to use your account page on their website to change the wifi settings, and the more advanced part of it you must install an app on your phone. But you can't specify a custom DNS (which I'm sure the default router firmware would let you do).

So yeah, just give me a modem, and I'll do everything myself.
I bet this also applies to cars. Seems like cars are getting worse since the pandemic.
I am impressed! It’s startling how small things have gotten
As long as they work inside the useful engagement window, they will serve their purpose.
Yes, however we will soon support other filetypes natively, and this will lead to better results (when converting from one format to another, there is often some information loss)
The Indian Currency Scandal #371
1: it is a watch, not a phone.

2: they linked two issues, if Apple can't report that what makes you think your protip will help?
This is a good thesis on addiction
Where broker’s fees are concerned, up-front cost is typically first and last month’s rent, plus the broker’s fee, which can be as low as one month’s rent or as high as 15% of the annual rent total (almost twice the cost of a single month’s rent).

Apply the rules above to whatever the average rent is for a given neighborhood, and there you go.
You should join the folks at the tau-not-pi club.

And going off on a tangent: in thermodynamics, we should measure coldness (coldness ~ 1 / temperature). It makes all the math come out nicer.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldness

Coldness handles 'negative temperatures' much better. As Wikipedia puts it:

> Though completely equivalent in conceptual content to temperature, β [= coldness] is generally considered a more fundamental quantity than temperature owing to the phenomenon of negative temperature, in which β is continuous as it crosses zero whereas T has a singularity.[7]
Some of us are making a good living offboarding workloads from cloud onto bare metal with on-node NVMe storage.
Huh? Cars are lasting, on average, longer than they ever have.
A big shout out to local-first community and Martin in particular.

I'm a big believer in local-first and just to share that next month we will be presenting in the IEEE rapid standardization workshop Bangalore for a new robust wireless PHY standard proposal for rural community utilizing local-first learning management system (LMS) as a potential case-study.
At one point Earth was largely molten, it's a safe bet that Titan was substantially warmer for awhile after it accreted in the first place. Then there's major impacts, which really stir things up.

There were plenty of opportunities for compounds in the rocky center of the moon to get mixed into its ocean.
got a link to the rails improvement?

nvm, found it: https://dev.37signals.com/solid-cache/
I'm pretty skeptical of what Sinofsky says. Back in the day, former Microsoft employees called out the differences between what he said and what he did, i.e. "Don't ship the org chart" -> his own org ships the org chart.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4778996

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4776031
I provide software to car restoration industry. Absolutely this … modern cars are becoming paperweights much quicker than their previous generations. Now are they safer/quieter/more efficient, absolutely ! Are they in landfill less than 10 years, absolutely…
Getting bias right in models is super important, but not as important as accuracy. Seems like bias tuning in the Gemini model is turned right up to "mega woke".
No, I don't. But Bitcoin also isn't particularly interesting because it's not (very) programmable and not useful for mainstream use anyway. I don't consider Ethereum itself a pyramid scheme, just useless. The protocols on top of these chains though, nearly all pyramid schemes. The best way to describe Ethereum is that it provides a platform for pyramid schemes.
Omg I lived in a house with electricity included, got the contract pre-covid, as a flatshare, we were all respectful of a fair unwritten usage quota, you know, then covid passed, and since in Netherlands rent prices went to the stars, the landlord tried to evict us with bad excuses, failing (you can't evict in NL tenants of more than 1 year 8 months without good cause), then he tried to raise the rent more than 2% per year (you can't, that's why he wanted to evict us, so you can rent the same place at any arbitrary price), then he tried to raise electricity bills by removing them from being included in the rent (you can't), anyway, we got tired, I think we turned on 5 TVs per day every day all day, PC on all day every day, there was a power price crisis in NL for a while during Ukraine war, I think we bankrupted the guy, it was amazing to see him to try to squeeze any cent from us failing without recourse

Landlords are the only true illegal aliens
Why PDF and ot PG instead? The support of HEIC is not great outside Apple. A friend with an IPad has lot of trouble to send mails with photographed paperwork, becuse a lot of recivers claim that they can't open the images.
This looks really nice! I feel like Python's frontend ecosystem is currently exploding. I came across fastUI[1] today as well which looks similar.

1. https://github.com/pydantic/FastUI
>Demand has outpaced supply, and landlords are happy to outsource the majority of the tenant search process.

This is the part I simply cant fathom.

I am a landlord. Why would I ever be willing to fork over 10K to save a trivial amount of work. Do the brokers take on some sort of liability for tenants?
this is a great idea and should have happened long ago..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19713604#19714732
Quantification of sanity and insanity?
I asked this question a few days ago and the responses, arrogance and ignorance was astounding. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39406709

I promise, if I'm here asking this week, there's millions more that will be asking next week. Carving out the labour market has more consequences than increasing productivity. It destroys culture, society and a will to live. Wise up.

edit: And before the inevitable responses begin pouring in. Even the argued ethically sourced material scooped up from Shutterstock, et al. is still shrouded in dark patterns, hidden automatically enabled opt-in removal of rights, automated payments to tie up the fact you accepted payment as part of the argument in court. It all stinks, it should all tumble.

edit2: People are great at recognising patterns. I've frequented this platform daily for almost a decade. The speed of engagement in this thread and the fact it doesn't exist on the front page... or the second shows, once again -- the strings can suck it. Stifling reality doesn't change it.
What would be neat would be a way to consume a motherboard's validation list and cross-filter with that.
While I’m glad I can do it at all, my cable modem requires logging into their webservice, and flip a switch there to turn it from modem + router into just a modem. Still confuses me how that’s not a setting in the modem interface.
Haha guaranteed Rockstar status in the bay area
I mean I hate -other- parts of Cox but AFA cablecos go, they weren't comcast bad at least?
I suppose physical dependence/addiction has a similar mechanism. Rather than being unable to make yourself do something your brain doesn't want, you have to fight your brain really wanting something instead. And even non-ADHDers can suffer from that!
Because Rust doesn't have a specification, we can argue back and forth forever about whether something is part of the "language design". The point is that the design problem has been fixed by desugaring to bounds on "for" since 2016 [1]. The only thing that remains is to implement the solution in the compiler, which is an engineering problem. It's not going to break a significant amount of code: even the bigger sledgehammer of banning contravariance on function types was measured to not have much of an impact.

As far as I can tell, the main reason to argue "language design" vs. "compiler bug" is to imply that language design issues threaten to bring down the entire foundation of the language. It doesn't work like that. Rust's type system isn't like a mathematical proof, where either the theorem is true or it's false and one mistake in the proof could invalidate the whole thing. It's a tool to help programmers avoid memory safety issues, and it's proven to be extremely good at that in practice. If there are problems with Rust's type system, they're identified and patched.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/25860#issuecomment-...
To be fair though, almost every language is unsound in that metric. In fact, only an implementation that is verified and translated from a formal specification with the verifier and translator also similarly verified (ad infinitum) would be sound. Even PL researchers are not that strict---many academic papers don't actually prove the whole soundness, because the proof process is more or less automatic for the vast majority of cases to who know enough PL theories. (I can't say it's "mechanical", since the reasoning is still required. But the reasoning itself is not too involved for intended audiences.)

Just like that not every security vulnerability is equally fatal, not every soundness bug is equally fatal. I reckon about three levels of severity: inherent to the design itself, not inherent to the design but reasonably user-visible, and pathological. As pcwalton pointed out, miri does show that this particular soundness bug is NOT inherent to the language design, and I believe that's true for most of 84 unsound bugs (please let me know any counter-example though, I haven't fully checked them). It remains to be seen whether there exist soundness bugs that are still user-visible enough.
It might be an unpopular opinion, but globalization did this — the consolidation and exportation of manufacturing out of the west has decimated manufacturing capabilities in the countries.

My father was a tool maker (top of his profession, top shop at Molex for a time). He and everyone he knew had such pride in their work. They also knew who would use their products. They cared about the quality and worked hard to deliver. It was a personal pride thing, as much as anything else.

When you export manufacturing, people don’t know who they’re building for. Nor does near slave labor in some places create quality.

Not to mention, companies are trying to maximize profit. To contrast, the owner of molex at one point heard my dad needed a surgery. He came down on the shop floor, called him over and sent my dad (and our family) to the Mayo Clinic for 2 weeks to have the surgery done (all expenses paid). It wasn’t for profit, it was for a good business.
Or could it be that the parents of most people who were live on this website 15, or even 10 years ago were not using computers, and the parents of the younger generation on this website are using computers?

So maybe people want their parents to avoid getting scammed or having their money stolen from their accounts.
It's hard to maintain a revenue stream if your product is good enough to last, so the products are engineered to either be part of a subscription, to be replaced far sooner than necessary, or both. They're worried more about their revenue sustainability than they are actual product "sustainability."

The "buy-it-for-life" brands ran into this problem because once you sell someone the classic product, they aren't going to sell another one unless it's to another (new) customer or purchased as a gift for someone by their existing loyal customer. So then they start entering into new product areas and eventually end up compromising quality.

As other have mentioned, this is becoming particularly annoying with home appliances and cars. "They don't make them like they used to" are true words.
I drive a 98 BMW, albeit with lots of maintenance (that I do my self). You think today's cars will last that long?
> You'd think ISPs would do their darnedest to make it so they don't have a way of knowing what content is flowing over their pipes, to help avoid accusations of contributory infringement.

ISPs don't generally go looking for copyright infringement. In order to keep safe harbor protections ISPs are required by law to register with the US copyright office (which requires them to pay a small annual fee) and provide them with a contact address where they agree to accept DMCA notices. The media industry hires third parties who hunt for IPs sharing files and they report them to the ISPs at their registered address which means they now can't pretend they didn't know about it. Of course those third parties aren't very careful about who they accuse of infringement and innocent people and even innocent network printers (https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/0...) have been accused as a result, but accusations and unproven allegations are all that matter according to the courts (so far)
Apple's discussions website(what was linked to) is not how you get Apple's attention. Apple makes it pretty clear they don't do anything with the discussions website other than make it available for users to support each other.
I’m not comfortable with any endorsement being inferred toward any link that is UGC, even from something the website tacitly “allows” by not deleting it. For the majority of websites there’s plenty of absolute trash lurking in all the Les travelled parts where nobody cares or nobody has seen it. But the bots will always see it.
What about this one:

https://www.cvxpy.org/

If you can convert your problem into a convex one (which I believe is often possible if you’re clever about how you express it), that would seem to be a pretty good option, no?
> The best tool in this space should eliminate the need of specialized PM.

exactly this, having a project manager drive tasks just erodes the sense of ownership in the team. the sense of ownership that comes from giving the responsibility to devs to manage their tasks directly is immense, especially during the initial years

I think the for fast moving teams, the eventual winner in this space is going to be someone who can transparently bring in product requirements and timeline requirements to devs directly than via some middleman
Not sure what this means, can you elaborate?
It's impossible to make. You cannot prove any sentence was created by an LLM and you can't prove it wasn't.
BiDi WebConsole DevTools Prototype
I think both can be true.

By analogy, consider mental arithmetic vs. electronic calculators and spreadsheets.

Being able to do mental arithmetic is an important skill, arguably the only way to have a profound and deep understanding of many things. At the same time, calculators and spreadsheets allow an individual to do things that just would be totally out of reach without these tools.

Some people argue that generative AI has already reached this point, and I think that's plausible in a few narrow domains. It's also plausible that the domains to which it applies keep broadening.
Do you mean the consumer version?

The enterprise version has been around and available for subscription with the other office products before the pandemic.
It might not please you to learn that Signal Desktop stores your messages in a trivially-read SQLite database. But it may prevent you from trying to lock the client with a pin.

https://www.alexbilz.com/post/2021-06-07-forensic-artifacts-...
Walmart buying TV-brand Vizio for its ad-fueling customer data
I expected the integration links to tell me what each integration can do rather than take me to a login form.

The ideal project management tool for me would integrate with the tools I use to do the work being tracked, and ML to automatically log everything in the project management tool. Kata lets you send updates from your other application using special comments, but I would prefer not to even have to do that.
> [...] from what I understand, has Ackermann complexity rather than EXPTIME.

Really bad worst case times aren't necessarily bad in practice, if most instances you actually encounter can be solved quickly (especially if you are happy to be satisfied with worse than proven-optimal solutions.)

Compare how Hindley-Milner type inference, which forms the basis of Rust's or Haskell's type systems, is double-exponential in the worst case (or something like that), but typically fast in practice.
For sure. Most cars today are more reliable than cars 20-30 years ago. More cars are lasting well past 100K miles and often 200K miles.

Sure you have some few cars that have survived since ‘98 but they are not numerous.
2001: Cameras on Phones? – BBC News [video]
Maybe a paywall is there for a reason
on the other hand, my 10 year old mac mini still runs fine, although it no longer supports the latest OSX and many of the more recent APP's. But as a media/entertainment device, light duty file server, and even coding the occasional throwaway program, it comfortably holds its ground.
These are some great points. I'm glad I left that message :) It's always interesting to hear the other side
I still don't get how people believe one can make money out of other people's creative works (on a mass scale at that) and get away with it. Training an AI is not fair use and has nothing to do with open source. Posting content online doesn't automagically make it usable for whatever purpose.
Sure, ask anyone with a Toyota.
How can you say that so confidently? New cars (post-pandemic is very recent) inherently don't haven't been around for long enough to say for sure what their lifespan will be. We just have to guess based on how they feel.
Maybe paywalls aren't successful for a reason
Is there a good source of data on this? On the one hand, I could believe that newer cars have better engineering which makes many components more reliable. On the other hand, crumple zones and expensive bodywork mean that modern cars are Fabregé eggs that can be easily totaled in minor accidents. And increases in the complexity and scope of what cars do can increase the cost of maintenance and make them go obsolete faster.
Or, the company closes and you keep using the version of the software that you bought X years ago for $30 and were perfectly happy with. If you want to upgrade it's on the company to continue improving the product with new features that are worthwhile investing in, rather than adding stuff no one cares about, with forced upgrades, or worse, doesn't improve the product at all, and you're stuck paying everything month for the same thing.
Test of cheap Li-Ion 18650 cells – beware of fakes (2017)
> hard to maintain a revenue stream if your product is good enough to last

Servicing. High-end appliances seem to last just fine.
I mean, it's cool to pin it on manufacturers trying to increase margins, or on "planned obsolescence" - but a lot of it is our doing. We're willingly enabling it. There are manufacturers that make simple and serviceable appliances; for example, most Frigidaire fridges don't have cool-looking displays, wifi connectivity, and other bells and whistles. But how many Frigidaire products are sold every year, compared to LG or Samsung? These brands are not only loaded to the brim with "smart" features, but many technicians refuse to work on them due to poor design and poor availability of parts. So when they break after 2-5 years, they are destined for the dump.

This day and age, the knowledge is at our fingertips. But when shopping, we select the appliance with the most futuristic LCD and that plugs into Alexa to notify us that the laundry is done...
It's to the point where they're sacrificing accuracy in order to depict results as they wish them to be, not as they are.
These websites are the reason I pay my internet bill for.
Did an asteroid wipe out the dinosaurs? I think it was blood borne viruses transmitted by biting insects across the large surface area of the dinosaurs bodies. They had no immune system, short opportunity to adapt, only the smaller types lived.
You assume sales and marketing listen to engineering. At Canonical, they do not.

Source: I’m a former Canonical employee.
https://getsession.org/
Great take, I agree with all of these
I don’t think most are afraid that people who know to search HN will cause any problems by searching it, rather that with increased public visibility will become popular amongst the types of trolls, scammers, spammers, political wackos, etc that inhabit (insert your least favorite social media or link aggregator site).

I have to admit I agree. I really like the benevolent dictatorship which does not allow that kind of BS, even from me. (The time dang gently reprimanded me for some kind of sarcastic attack, upon reflection, I decided that I liked this high standard, and resolved to do better.) I’d hate for it to change too.
This is an interesting benchmark that compares disk read latency across different clouds across various disk configurations, including SSD's and EBS: https://github.com/scylladb/diskplorer

Google's disk perform quite poorly.

And how Discord worked around it: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-supercharges-network-di...
Yeah I’m surprised at how rare this is to see. I guess that means all Germans don’t follow this convention?
not the first, not even the fiftieth I've seen this conflict. first one I've seen Ukraine win though. with all the losing, taking down one drone is a big success for the Nazis.
Their design is great. Ethics a little less so.

They still make extensive use of google-analytics. I don't care how obfuscated google claim to make the data they receive, routinely leaking all online interactions between UK citizens and UK government to a private overseas company is just wrong.
> [...] and elsewhere kings are usually coronated by the Pope of the Catholic Church.

Only in catholic countries. I haven't looked up the numbers, but I assume less than half of remaining monarchies are catholic. Mostly because we have a number of protestant monarchies (like the Netherlands and Denmark), and we have plenty of monarchies that aren't Christian at all (like Thailand or Malaysia or Saudi Arabia).
I didn't learn anything from that screencast. It's not clear what action causes which reaction.