skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An even more extreme response to modernism is Ann Sussman's claim that it originated from trauma and mental illness:

https://commonedge.org/the-mental-disorders-that-gave-us-mod...

Although I agree with her that traditional, ornamental design is more beautiful, something bothers me about her line of argument; it seems cheap and patronizing to take ideas expressed with rigor and good faith by talented people and dismiss them w/o engaging them intellectually. Nevertheless, its an interesting point of view
They should really think about changing out the theme asap. It may not be their fault that they used the same template and their logos look similar, but being the new entrant, they should definitely establish their own brand look.
…and the base configuration still has 8 Gb of RAM.
I suggest going through the exercise of seeing whether this is true quantitatively. Get a business-relevant NER dataset together (not CoNLL, preferably something that your boss or customers would care about), run it against Mistral/etc, look at the P/R/F1 scores, and ask "does this solve the problem that I want to solve with NER". If the answer is 'yes', and you could do all those things without reading the book or other NLP educational sources, then yeah you're right, job's finished.
You can, as long as you close the laptop: https://support.apple.com/en-us/117373
- Telegram Premium subscriptions (5 million users as of January 2024 [1])

- Ads (non-targeted/non-user-profiling) in Telegram channels

- now there’s some store/merchant features being added

[1]: https://t.me/rove/244
I don't disagree. I just come away from the article feeling more confused as opposed to enlightened and excited about what they're building.

It even makes me think that they don't understand what they're talking about which is why they're using complicated terminology to mask it but I'm hopeful I'm wrong and this is an engineering innovation that benefits everyone.
I’ve worked in public sector in various capacities forever. Nobody cares about in-process work products, even within organizations. They usually aren’t subject to FOIA or similar and only apply in limited circumstances.

Every employee with a reasonably recent office suite can produce a high quality PDF of whatever they are producing.

I actually have done such things. It’s not that bad - the process of review is the painful part.

Nobody has the skillsets to manage latex source code in a collaborative environment. I actually did a pilot a few years ago with Markdown and GitHub to collaborate on a large report for a multi-organization project. We quickly abandoned it for Word/Sharepoint and it worked fine.

The only practical exceptions I can think of are typesetting for publishing and bill drafting. Both are narrow use cases with specialized staff and tools. I definitely see where having a system output LaTeX could be useful for those use cases. But not the the collaborative aspects.
yup.. Flowers of algernon, meets Baribie, meets The Lighthouse !

really great movie
Algol 60 and Pascal had 'BEGIN ... END' to handle multiple statements in a block, but Ada and Wirth's successors, Modula-2 and Oberon, removed them except to denote where code begins in a PROCEDURE. It is much cleaner.

Poorly contrived example in Oberon:

IF n > 1 THEN
n := n * n;
RETURN 0
ELSE
RETURN 1
END
Do you mean the menu bar?
I was burned pretty hard by the “air” product line. There used to be a whole ton of issues related to throttling, cooling, keyboard, and hinge issues. I used this thing as a daily driver during college.

Ended up switching up to a MBP, which is still in use today.

Anybody have any experience with today’s hw? With Apple silicon/arm, were they able to fix the over heating issues; or was the internal chassis redesigned to improve airflow?
I wrote the article (not the code - though I was part of it).

The code is is 30 lines of conditional, recursive, partially-type-inferred Typescript type expression. It's actually not too bad when you break it down.

What it enables: Zod-like safety + convenience, over plain JSONs.

Hope it's an interesting read
Scaling SQLite to 4M QPS on a single server (2018)
It's hard to gauge cleaning effort: if a guest uses every dish in the kitchen without doing a wash up, they cleaning crew could be there for hours.

But if a guest is tidy, then the cleaning fee should be nothing.

The hard part is that you need to reserve and pay for a cleaning crew as if it was always a disaster.
When I look at the Tiny Twitter example and see the code below, I'm curious if there is a more "SQL" way to implement it.

```
select 'checkbox' as component,
'Terms and conditions' as label,
true as required;
```

I'm thinking "What would the workflow of a sql-enthusiast be, to build that page".

I think they'd want todo this first:

```
select * from sqlpage.components;
```

which would list the `name` of each component. Which then takes me to:

```
INSERT INTO sqlpage.dom
SET name = 'checkbox',
label = 'Terms and conditions ',
required = TRUE
FROM sqlpage.components
```

(or VALUES syntax for INSERT)

This would allow you to re-order your dom, update dom entries, etc. Very similar to jsx, but instead of jsx creating in-memory javascript objects, it's sqlpage's sql creating rows in a postgres table. Then the SQLPage virtualdom gets transformed into actual html.

Just a thought, :)
1Password stores the MFA details as well. Your phone/email passwords and all can be stored in there as well. Since my parents are aging, we have a bit of experience with this process.
Thank you, will look into it
But they get to remind everyone that they're the "good guys", and they're "trying"
And have someone nearby with a 2x4 to beat you off whatever you might be gripping/fell onto.
The only celebrity mail I recall writing, definitely as a class requirement, was to Carl Sagan. I was very disappointed to receive a form letter from his secretary in response.
You'd be surprised how common runtime SQL generation and execution is :')
lying that way ain't our cup of tea
> The average residential electric rate for Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) customers is 45 cents per kWh, as of January 1, 2024. However, the cost per kWh ranges from 34 to 72 cents per kWh depending on the rate schedule, season, and time of day.

I mean it seems right inline with California prices in general.

Being reliant on PG&E has definitely kept us from buying electric — no way am I ever trusting that company given their track record.

In order to go from early adopters to mainstream it not only needs to be cheaper, but it needs to be more convenient and otherwise advantageous, especially for renters.

I am watching as corporate profits on charging strips that away and it’s concerning. I have also watched electric vehicles get gutted by depreciation in the secondary market — losing half the value in three years as a category isn’t great.

If you raise these issues, the advocates bristle, but these are real headwinds for the industry and important to bear in mind. They can’t be ‘equivalent to gas’ as so many argue: they must be and remain a superior option.

https://www.solar.com/learn/pge-electric-rates/#:~:text=The%....
I’m sorry, but if you think that an in-person robot with an animated face is more charismatic than a human being, we must live in different universes.
> Agreed, I just find it interesting how intense the projection is, and also how superficial.

I think it's because they're basically "casting" some foreign faction into a domestic political role. The Remain faction are the "Democrats" of Brexit, the Russians are the "MAGA Republicans" of the Ukraine war, the Israelis are the "white people" of the Israel/Palestine conflict, etc.
I was tempted to define and cite the term more carefully before I used it but that leadened the article a lot right in the middle and so I cut it and just hoped.

It is a great concept and also a great book. I really enjoyed it but I've never found a convincing way to persuade people to read it. I read it on personal recommendation but that only works if it comes from someone you respect (as in my case).
I live in Philadelphia & have family & friends in DC, NYC, & eastern MA. Amtrak is my most frequent mode of travel for distances over 20km by an order of magnitude.
Fair point - I just didn't want to make a post saying '95% of people get this wrong, but I'm not going to tell you how!' - the message is presenting, in my own simplified form, what I understand is the popular understanding of Dunning Kurger, versus how I understand the effect manifested in the study.

Of course my understanding is also based on some probably misremembered media, combined with a five minute refresher on the Wikipedia page, so it may be equally erronious. Please do you own research.
This is a non-trivial issue for any db product. I am not going to integrate this into my business, unless I feel very certain about what I can expect.

A couple of month ago, for example, Budibase introduced a fundamental license restructure, that (for our specific commercial use case and user structure) moved it from interesting to out of the question.

The product itself is useful and thoughtfully designed (as Teable is shaping up to be), I am sure there is a good reason for why they did it, and I am not even putting it past them that something could have been "worked out" — but this to me is completely unacceptable level of stress, when I have maybe already deeply integrated your tool into my business.
Is the Minimal Phone a Scam?
I'm truly sorry if our actions have caused any offense. Our team consists of 5 freelance programmers without any designers on board, and without any funding, so we had to tackle the design aspect ourselves. Initially, we planned to use a colorful gradient theme, but found the UI coordination too challenging for us. It was then that we came across the beautiful simplicity of shadcn, and decided to go with a black and white theme.

We did look at various black and white themed websites on the market, including Notion and Attio, but I assure you, we did not plagiarize any images. Thank you for your critique. We will make it our priority to adjust our design to be more unique as swiftly as possible.
Products with PCIe (PCI Express) and high speed interfaces like 10G Ethernet, SATA, HDMI, USB 3.0 and higher, Thunderbolt.

Most of the ASICs with these SerDes interfaces are not for sale on the open market, only for OEM who buy MOQ of millions.

Take for example the Raspberry PI SBCs. The Raspberry Pi only got PCIe very late (compute model 4), influencer Jeff unlocked them with a lot of difficulty https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com but you still can't buy these cheap microprocessors from Broadcom.

The reason is that no cheap PCIe chips are available for hobbyists and small company buyers (below a million dollars).

'Cheap' FPGA's starting at $200+ where and still are the only PCIe devices for sale to anyone. If you want to nitpick, a few low speed Serdes are available in $27 ECP5 FPGA's, but no 10 Gbps and higher.

Another example, I sell $130 switches with 100 Gbps switching speeds and PCIe 4x8 and QSFP28 optics. But you can't buy the AWS/Amazon ASIC chips on this board anywhere, nor their competitors chips from Broadcom, Intel, MicroSemi/Microchip, Marvell.

I went as high as Intel's vice president and also their highest level account manager VPs and still got no answer on how to buy their ASIC switches or FPGAs.
Most computer users are totally IT-illiterate, they do not even know something like diff exists in software/concept terms... That's why they still use spreadsheets and office automation suites...

This kind of problem should be solved from schools, but to happen we need the masses feel the need of that, and they do not even know that's a problem, most fails to understand the difference of local/remote contents, have no clue about what is a file https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-direc... so there are few Alphabet-s, owning Meta-information, being Oracle-s of a large mass of illiterates...
The Mongols undoubtedly wiped out entire ethnic groups during their conquests. They killed millions of people. In some cases languages would have been wiped out. You just don't hear much about them these days because dithering over the genocide of peoples we know little about back in 13th-14th century is not in the zeitgeist the way modern colonialism is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_under_the_Mongol_E...

It's not surprising, and in fact quite obvious, that any historical event has "good" impacts as well as "bad" ones. But to speak of the Mongols as "preservers of knowledge and culture" is silly. I suppose they could have done more to wipe such things out, and didn't, but it hardly seems like something they deserve credit for. Certainly you could make the argument the colonization of the Americas really did not in any way resemble Mongol extermination campaigns.
s/allegory/analogy/

It may just be a side effect of my dyslexia coping, but I read it as ‘analogy’ until reading your comment. Even then, I’m am pretty sure everyone knew they meant ‘analogy’ and just moved on. It’s okay to point out mistakes, but please be civil when doing so.
Sure, only some...
It could be "solved" in some way by requiring surety bonds to be provided to the city for each rental; bonds that could be seized if malfeasance was proven (now given that it is a physical property, that can also be seized).

I suspect that AirBNB (like Uber) will eventually split into various affiliated but somewhat isolated entities, primarily to avoid liabilities.
it's displayed in the app, when you try to save a new job search we display the full list of supported sites.
How we engineer feedback at Figma with eng crits
Speedometer 3: Building a benchmark that represents the web
The failure here is that the door was not reinspected after the bolts had been removed to “open” it. A reinspection would be required if had been “removed”, and I’d bet that wings are always inspected for proper construction and installation (because there’s no way to “open” the wings).

I don’t believe the parent comment is saying the design is poor, it’s about the process during assembly and maintenance.
The actual binary format will be the same regardless of extra info shared together with the actual code. That was my point, so it honestly does not matter for any sufficiently complicated product how it's shipped.

The problem is the incentives, people don't WANT to share that data with you.

And there are very good reasons to not ship an application as plain python, the biggest problem is all the dependencies that that requires. And the impact that has on the user.
Problem is, slow chargers are not fast enough to attract customers, and fast chargers are about $100k (an expensive loss leader) + maintenance.
These links are amazing!! Thank you for sharing, what a treasure trove!

Will definitely be checking out the bbs’s
You should install it from the distro's package manager. If it's not cryptographically signed by the distro you have to fork the operating system to add another key to trust. A custom kernel module has immense security implications so it shouldn't be easy to do as an attacker shouldn't be able to trick someone into installing one for free vbucks.
I was confused by the headline, because my own Macintosh Classic has 4MB with the expansion card. I seem to remember reading about people swapping or piggybacking RAM chips to upgrade earlier compact Macs where RAM was sorely lacking.
Evaluating LLM systems: Metrics, challenges, and best practices
The ReefShark ASIC sits alongside an FPGA which acts akin to an IPU. I know only because I played my own small part in the design. It was originally meant to be entirely FPGA-based, but they got hit with some severe supply constraints by Intel and Xilinx, which is why cost keeps getting discussed. Prices have dropped back down to stable numbers again since mid-last year, but at the time ASICs ended up being more affordable at the volume they're doing (demand spiked mid-project due to the removal of Huawei networking equipment).
Google Chrome on a 13” MacBook Air almost fills the entire menu bar on its own for me — you don’t need that many notification icons before some start disappearing. (I also think Google Chrome has way too many menu entries, but that’s a different discussion.)

Also, the fact that a menu item that doesn’t fit on the left of the notch by 1px has to move to the right as a whole means that the notch effectively takes up a lot more usable pixels than it seems at first glance.
Liken it to working on a crossword puzzle
Amen. It's their job to calculate risk. Not my job to be "transparent". The ratchet only goes in one direction.

I won't be an Amazon driver in my own car.
My guess is it will stop property owners from using cameras openly indoors as they have been allowed to before.
Agree, but I'm not sure that explicitly Bauhaus building design actually "shapes the modern world" as stated in the title.

I'd argue that only a fraction of well-designed buildings in your surrounding actually embody the Bauhaus ethos and its derived aesthetics, but possibly a majority of well-designed products around you do.
If you’re paying the cleaning fee anyway, why would you do any of that stuff?
Continuous learning is fun, but the related ability naturally decays in humans.
Post-Open License by Bruce Perens
> Hosts can’t use outdoor cams to keep tabs on indoor spaces

That might be easy to game either way. Hosts can claim they didn’t keep tabs, just had a hunch to come over and check; and guests can claim the camera in the yard could see some part of the interior through a window and ask for a refund.

One interesting effect is that now hosts with hidden cameras can't offer the footage as proof during disputes.
> Group get-aways where the point is being together at the place

And how are the neighbours going to feel about your house party in their residential area? You can't call this model "amazing" for all concerned. Don't say that this doesn't happen, it really does. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39669347
Related:

As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39664563
I must be dumb, how do I actually browse the images?
> Is there a reason to build a database on top of a filesystem abstraction rather than a block abstraction?

Oracle DB for a long time supported running on raw partitions which I think suggests that the answer is "not really". Snowflake (and I hear Clickhouse) can run on S3 which I think is more evidence against running on a filesystem. Not to mention the torrid time Postgres has had with fsync on linux.
never thought about it that way. I'm a shy person so don't usually like putting my name out there. Also, personally, I've never cared who's behind a product, if I like it, I'll use it.
Can we not have an alternative to PDFs? I get that they're more standardized but why would everyone let adobe have the hammer for a file type that's so important
I've often felt a bunch of the "love" for AirBNB comes from people who didn't realize that you could do short-term rentals of entire properties before it hit the market (and where you'd go for those).
This looks fantastic, will be studying this up

Thank you!
Fond memories of using mailto. Spammers really ruined the internet for all of us.
Still sounds like it can get hot and throttle if pushed hard for a long period [0].

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/macbooks/m3-macbook-air...
Because they'll charge you for it and ding your rating.
I’d say if it’s not mentioned in the ad up-front, you don’t have to do any of that.

I’ve found high cleaning fees to sometimes be an intentional discouragement to shorter bookings, but sometimes I’ve paid it because it was still the best option and I like that they maintained the option.

Sucks that the only way to push on fixed costs (it’s not just cleaning) is via the cleaning fee.
It sounds like what you're looking for is an identity provider.

A popular open source option is https://www.keycloak.org/

This application can manage your users, then you can use standards like OpenID or SAML to plug it into your application, of which there are usually many plugins to accomplish this depending on your tech stack.
The hosts could leave you a bad review which can make it harder to book in the future.
> Also, what makes this different from

With no prior knowledge of any of these and briefly glancing through each site, the main thing that sticks out to me is that Teable is free as in has no pricing page (for now at least)
> Who cares if they’re all women? What difference does it make?

One of my main beefs is the mismatch between the headline "Brilliant Thinkers ..." and the contents of the page. If they had labeled their page accurately "Brilliant Female Thinkers..." I would be less annoyed, but they sneaking their biased filter in under a headline likely to attract more readers than the page's content would if accurately described.

> All that matters is whether the content is useful to the reader.

I find it remarkably useless, especially considering the shallow exploration of the scientists' processes.

> Reducing this website to “performative sexism” feels reductive and pointless.

I was talking about the web page, not the site. And if a page is biased, or employs false advertising to attract clicks, it is right to call that out.
Having ADHD I've often wondered how I could even do a deadman switch. I'd eventually forget to renew it when I was otherwise perfectly fine.
Because hosts can leave bad reviews of guests. This happened to us once when we were new to Airbnb, we had that exact thought: "We paid a cleaning fee, we're pretty tidy anyway let's just let them do their job." But we got a bad review and now almost every place we book, I get a phone call asking about the bad review and I have to explain... "We paid a cleaning fee, we're already very tidy people, and we were stressed and rushed getting our family with young kids out the door on time. The mess they're complaining about was probably 5 minutes of sweeping, but now we are even more meticulous when checking out."
I have experienced many outages that were contained to a specific availability zone in AWS, from power failures to flooding to cable cuts. You are correct that 5 9’s still requires multi-region though.
This looks super helpful, love the premise:

> That's a perfectly valid and probably the most common use of SSH, but it can do so much more than that. Just like HTTP, SMTP, FTP and others, SSH is a protocol!

Thank you
That is very kind - glad to hear that you enjoyed it.
I think the 256gb storage is an even bigger letdown, esp because small SSDs are slower and the swap writes will likely be focussed to a smaller area, increasing the degradation speed even further.

All in all, 16gb/512 should have been the default a long time ago but why do it when you can sell it for an additional $500
I went to an Airbnb where the host had a ledger of all the previous guests that had stayed, with their personal information and their passport number. And it was left in the apartment for you to sign, so I had access to the passport number of literally hundreds of people from all over the world.

And it wasn't a mistake as the host asked you to sign the ledger when you arrived.
Ehm... Most computer users on gov, edu and so on fails to comprehend the difference between a native pdf and a scanned image to a pdf or the meaning of "digital signature", that's even if we have formal lawful definition of PADES/XADES/JADES signatures, "certified emails", e-billing and so on.

That's the level of the issue. I regularly bark against some executive sending a doc printed, then scanned, then mailed, and they do not understand...
"I've noticed when the anecdotes and the metrics disagree, the anecdotes are usually right" -Jeff Bezos, who unfortunately made a few good points.
Any service that's so pedantic about cleaning isn't a service that most customers would want to use. Airbnb is trying to have it's cake and eat it too putting the responsibility on "hosts" to be the bad guys. It's just lazy and callous to not have strict bounds of responsibilities customers are expected to engage with.