skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
past performance is no guarantee if future returns; you're not wrong there.

but will vending machines + their associated maintenance hours & overhead + supplies of goods to be sold return you more, or less, than VTI?

hell, with interests rates being what they are, but 100k into high interest savings, bonds, certificate accounts, etc. and catch an easy 4.5% ($4500/mo.) with little to no risk, overhead, or random youth stealing your stuff.
McDonald's prices are up, so lower-income consumers are eating at home
Your calculations are off, but so are mine. I had initially assumed a 10 hour work day which makes a big difference in how large the gap is, but it looks like working hours dropped from 10h/day in 1890 to ~8.2 by 1929. https://eh.net/encyclopedia/hours-of-work-in-u-s-history/ Still a 6 day workweek.

Anyway, they don't actually list light in terms of calories per hour just 838/day without saying number of hours worked. Further they list BMR at 1550c/day.

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...

edit: 1954 is 5 days but hours are up to 8.4.

So ~838 / 8.4 + (1550/24) = 164 calories per hour during work.

If office workers are at 120/h +/- 10 and they are working the same 8.2h days that's a deficit of (164 - 120) * 8.4 +/- 10 * 8.2 = 369.6 +/- (82) which is quite large but half your 800cal/day.

Though again, I had assumed a longer work day which puts the numbers a lot closer. (838/10 + 65) = 149/h vs 120/h.
Thanks for the context, i did not realize that this was land that had been returned to the squamish nation. The previous reporting i'd seen on this developemnt made it sound like the parcel was the original treaty land.
>I still expect the big wake up call is going to be in a couple years when Steam enables attestation in their Linux product and VAC begins requiring it, but at least the ripples of LXC’s approach are being seen at all.

I have a feeling this is coming down the line too. But I also don't see the coexistence part in any of this. There is no compromise, it's do what we say or else. You can call this coexistence, but Stockholm syndrome is more apt I think.
JDK-8180450: secondary_super_cache does not scale well
Faster US stock settlement poses 'systemic risk' to Europe: asset managers
Why should they voluntarily reduce a price their actual customers seem all too happy to pay?

A dev's game being on Steam and having access to that massive customer base is much more valuable to that dev than Generic Looter Shooter #8589 is to Steam.
It sounds as if your MVP wasn't viable...

That is: what you thought was the important part of the 95% and what the potential customers thought, differed too much.

Sidenote: I wouldn't be surprised if you closely followed what customers stated and still ended up somewhere they didn't care for.
I've had stuff like that turn me off from signing up or ever checking back.

Does it matter to you? Yes.

Will you admit it? No.

But yes, these are all decisions we need to make. That manually accepting is some serious dedication. Do you have kids?
"supporting child labor"

From their point of view, the modern society may be needlessly infantilizing people who are halfway to adulthood.

We even treat university students like kids, hence all the obsession with micromanaging their campus experience.
Wasn’t ‘questionable internal decision making’ exactly how reddit replaced Digg?
If only twitter didn't kill vine, that was and still is my favorite short form video platform

I'm kind of surprised musk hasn't ressurected it
Underwater Chain Saw
What Car Is Driven Exclusively by Idiots?
At my company, we were given an early talk on Limitless. Never once did the reps mention that it ran on Serverless. Dear lord, that's going to be a hard no from me. Unless they've dramatically changed pricing for Limitless as opposed to normal Serverless, that'll be through the roof.
Not sure where Zola can fit dynamic CSP mechanics, but there might be a solution one day: https://www.netlify.com/blog/general-availability-content-se.... I might have figured out how to deploy Cactus with a strict CSP. It can't find the room tho, even when I deploy following the official guide, so this looks like something on their end (waiting for confirmation). It's on the `comments` branch if you want to test my approach https://github.com/charlesrocket/halve-z.

> if your posts are in folders and not an md file

Mandatory sections are probably for the asset colocation https://www.getzola.org/documentation/content/overview/#asse.... It's actually pretty handy; it makes the directory structure cleaner, and asset access is more direct within post pages.
No social media or aggregator site has ever been a developer's opportunity. If anything, they're a trap for entrpreneurial developers.

The technology to start one of the communities and get it through the first several waves of order-of-magnitude growth is trivial.

What's not trivial is drawing in enough users to seed a network effect and guiding/filtering those users towards a desired culture.

That's not developer stuff; that's marketing, partnerships, opportunity, and luck.
What I guess will happen is that it won't die for long time. But IPO won't go great and it will be slow fall to zero, and then someone takes it private and then it continues as zombie being moved from one dying empire to next one.
Not really ironic. It's available in 10 different fabric options. If you're surprised that a wool/alpaca blend fabric isn't heard wearing, or that boucle snags easily then you didn't think through the purchase. I have a similar sofa with the Beck fabric and it's great for the way I use it. The flambier boucle fabric looks great, but as a cat owner, I'd never purchase it.
I've been in it since 2013, so yea... going back to only 2021, isn't really interesting to me.

One way to hedge against those crashes is to use your BTC as collateral to borrow against it, and then find ways to use those borrowed funds to compound your earnings. For example, you can borrow ETH, stake that for ~4%. Of course, you need to maintain your ratio, but that's actually quite easy. Worst case you just unstake your ETH, pay back your loan and you're out... or you add more BTC to up your ratio.

This way you're protected against crashes and disconnected from the actual value of the underlying asset (BTC). You're making that ~4% regardless of what the price of BTC is doing. Saylor is playing these sorts of financial games (probably not with ETH, but with other assets). This is how he has continued to double down on his purchases, without having to sell.

Today is just noise and a terrible example to try to make, which undermines your position on things. It went down more than that after the ETF and then boomed upwards. Zoom out on the chart a bit instead of looking at these micro events.

You've been dumping on BTC in this whole thread. You've got a lot of karma here, but your vision and hatred of crypto are distorting your views. My suggestion would be to spend some time understanding the macro economics a bit more.
I know people here will always say "you have no idea the amount of work that goes into <xyz>" straightforward seeming function. But I still have to ask it:

The Reddit UI/app/experience hasn't changed in years, right? What do they need $450M/year of R&D costs [1] for? For serving advertisers? For infra ops? Seems bloated to me.

[1]:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000162828024...
Yeah when it comes to anything involving numbers there is absolutely no room for hallucination. It must be 100% accurate 100% of the time. No exceptions.
Robotics has been completely transformed in the last six months, check out this Figure video from yesterday

Robotics is dead. Long live robotics.

https://x.com/Figure_robot/status/1767913661253984474?s=20
GenAI training data licensing. Forum participants get, at no cost, a curated venue that continues to operate in return. Chat amongst yourselves while the robot learns.
This is a poor headline. This isn't for "website purchases" — Epic can support purchases on their own website and not pay a dime, just as Netflix, Amazon, and countless other sites do today. Epic would pay a commission only if they request a StoreKit Purchase Link Entitlement in order to complete App Store-initiated purchases themselves.

Note that Epic's own "App Store", Fab, is now less open than Apple's in this regard.
This is why I differentiate between "quality" and "luxury". Luxury goods are very often just expensive junk that people buy in order to signal that they have money.

Quality goods are well-designed, well-made, etc. And you can't be sure about quality based on price.
Hnsw Is Not Enough
I say this all as a YIMBY who is very happy to see 20k new units added to vancouver: something feels off about the plans for the Jericho lands but I can't describe it.

I feel like when you have these mega developments where 10 condos go up all at once in the space of a few blocks, they end up as "bedroom neighborhoods", where people sleep but don't do anything else. There are a lot of these happening in Canada right now. There's one on Victoria in Waterloo. Concord place in Toronto is another example. I don't see street life there. I only see people going to or coming from somewhere else.

The best neighborhoods are the ones where there is a broad-strokes master plan, but beneath that, some amount of decentralization in implementation. Then you get a diversity of ideas about how to live all in one place.

Maybe there are words for this I don't know.
Technically you can orbit the earth at a pretty low speed. Geostationary satellites orbit about 5,500kph, which is far slower than the 26,000kph starship reached today.

You just need to get high enough, and be pointing in the right direction.
"huge percentage of the US is against making it better because SOCIALISM."

There are many people who oppose things they don't understand because they haven't looked. There are also people who oppose things temporarily because they looked but have unanswered questions or some of the details don't make sense. We'd probably make more headway working to convince the people who will listen than trying to convince people who are ideologically opposed.
This article about about sofas opens with "The most important piece of furniture in your home..."

Did anyone else find this weird / funny?

Like, just off the top of my head I'd put my bed at the top of my list, waaaay ahead of a sofa. Next might be the desk & chair I WFH at, and then it goes on from there.

I get that the article wants to build engagement by "raising the stakes", but c'mon. Sofas are not that important :)
Well, my grandpa didn’t know jack about computers, so I very well could have maintained code he’s written based on the disquality of stuff I’ve had to work on in the past.

But yeah. In “A Fire Upon the Deep”, Vinge talked about archaeological programmers. There’s no doubt in my mind we’ll reach that point. “Tell me again why time_t is only 64 bits?” “Pull up a chair while I dig out the LKML archive. You know, this was originally stored in electric fields, if you can believe it!”
January 6th was a "legitimate" threat, not in the sense that the mob could have overcome the US military, but in the sense that, if they could have forced/intimidated Congress into declaring Trump the winner, that appearance of legitimacy could have blinded enough people (or enabled them to rationalize) to kick off a real civil war.
In reality it's quite hard for somebody to observe that themselves using just their smartphone. The only way they can do it is by getting a packet trace, which they won't have the permissions to capture on the phone, nor the skill to interpret. (Ideally they'd want to get packet traces from multiple points in the network to understand where the anomalies are happening, but that's even harder.)

In principle you could observe it from some kind of OS level counters that aren't ACLd, but in practice the counters are not reliable enough for that.

Now, the things like "calls dropping" or "connections getting reset" that you're calling out have nothing to do with packet loss. It's pretty obvious that you're not very technical and think that all error conditions are just the same thing and you can just mix them together. But what comes out is just technobabble.
Canadian indigenous settlements have been described by some as an "open air prison".
> As an avid endurance runner, I am very familiar with the importance of good pacing, and the perils of doing it poorly. If you go out too hard in a race, you are destined to crash and burn. On the other hand, if you start too slow, you may have too much time to make up before the end of the race. At every moment throughout a run, you need to be in-tune with your body, understanding the limits of how hard you can push given your current position in the race.

I know it's not a popular opinion, but I hate sport metaphors for business. They make no sense even with tiniest scrutiny.

Isn't endurance running as mean of transportation completely disrupted by bicycle, cars, or public transportation? Wouldn't endurance running even with perfect pace actually kill you if you don't stop?
The sentiment is extremely bearish there, although many admit there is likely to be an initial pop.
This. And HN greatly underestimates the public's tolerance for advertising.
Thanks. I appreciate your words of encouragement.
Seems like a very risky investment to me. Unsupervised non-employee mods have a tremendous amount of power over the day to day user facing operations. Why would anyone invest money in a site that could be quickly destroyed due to a fashionable political trend at anytime? For example if the mods band together and decide Jews can no longer use Reddit or something equally ridiculous the stock will plunge.
I did not say that. I said market is not dead for ml/ai and adjacent fields for sure, since that’s where I am. That doesn’t mean hiring is dead everywhere else.
I’m not up to speed on this, is there something I’m missing in the article or is there some other context you could share?
How many emails are you sending at stop lights? When I communicated I'd be lucky to queue some music at a stop light.
My perspective from working both inside and outside of Google:

The external spanner documentation doesn’t seem as good as the internal documentation, in my opinion. Because it’s not generally well known outside of G, they ought to do a better job explaining it and its benefits. It truly is magical technology but you have to be a database nerd to see why.

It’s also pretty expensive and because you generally need to rewrite your applications to work with it, there is a degree of lockin. So taking on Spanner is a risky proposition - if your prices get hiked or it starts costing more than you want, you’ll have to spend even more time and money migrating off it. Spanner’s advantages over other DBs (trying to “solve” the CAP theorem) then become a curse, because it’s hard to find any other DB that gives you horizontal scaling, ACID, and high availability out of the box, and you might have to solve those problems yourself/redesign the rest of your system.

Personally I would consider using Cloud Spanner, but I wouldn’t bet my business on it.
https://www.hedycode.com/ is spearheaded by the wonderful https://github.com/Felienne you might know her from her spreadsheet related research.

She gave a wonderful talk at Splash 2023 on Hedy, I'll see if I can find it. *edit, I don't think it was recorded but I found these two which will do

Hedy: Creating a Programming Language for EveryoneFelienne Hermans • YOW! 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4eSjA6btE8

"Hedy: A Gradual programming language" by Felienne Hermans (Strange Loop 2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmF7HpU_-9k
Hell yes. We need more of this. It's been kind of difficult to teach my little brother programming, libraries like turtle or websites up right now haven't really clicked. we need more children oriented projects like this, thank you
Correct, thanks, didn't realize it's better to mention. This is an open source project.
Reminds me previous sets of dinner chairs my parents had. Glued together. Slowly dried and then they were less than ideal... Even if the materials are good it means nothing if techniques are wrong.
>This is why attestation is dangerous without safeguards

Exactly. And these safeguards would need be legal. Seeing that the EU can't even force Apple to let me install a .ipa file on iOS without jailbreaking, I think it's safe to say we are fucked.
> I do medical devices.

Therac-25 happened in 1982 and changed that industry (and safety engineering in general) quite a bit, no?
The thing Voyager has going for it is, it's a small team. JPL is laying people off all over the place lately.

I'm not sure if it's really "society" that is responsible for these funding difficulties, it's the politicians. If you ask a random member of the public how much of the federal budget is allocated to NASA, they'll generally give you a percentage that's wildly higher than the actual figure.
A good start is having your ducks in a row for when conditions inevitably and suddenly lead to people jumping ship en masse to whatever Next Thing is waiting.

Lemmy was already built and deployed in several instances, but the reddit API controversy showed it wasn't quite ready. But now maybe it's closer?

Lemmy and other larger alternatives still leave some important problems unsolved, but the point is that "build it and they will come" still rings true if you have the patience to wait for the next inevitable misstep from the current major players.
"Starship did not attempt its planned on-orbit relight of a single Raptor engine due to vehicle roll rates during coast"

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...
that's probably priced in at this point
Like a web mittelstand [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand
Isn't that the same thing when you interact with the underlying webpage?
I worked for two types of companies that take the opposing strategies for networking: Your company had ethernet drops and workstations (laptops with docking stations count), or they used Macbooks connected via wifi. The latter I've found more frequently, but not exclusively, in startups.

If I were to venture a guess, it's probably cost. It's expensive to physically network an office between the hardware, physically wiring up the place, and all the technical people needed to do that work. It made sense a while ago when wifi was slow, laptops were not as capable (cost/performance/storage/etc) compared to their workstation counterparts, the cloud had yet to replace on-prem equipment, and every other business was doing the same thing. By the early 2010s those problems have largely disappeared, but the sunk costs exist for many companies.
And thank God for the EU doing such as well

That said, so long as you don't have data centers in the country, what can they realistically do to stop you if you have a VPN?

There's nothing illegal w.r.t a private citizen trying to circumvent censorship afaik. If you're trying to use illegal content or services (hitmen, drugs, child porn, non us compliant crypto such as finance etc), then I can see the retribution, but unless you go full middle east/CCP people will still get access to and repost it
There are several UI/UX things I hate about reddit that a competitor could easily fix:

1. Clicking on the side of the page -- on the background -- navigates to the subreddit main page. This makes it easy to navigate away when e.g. clicking on the page to focus on it.

2. Having to click expand a million times.

3. Having expand sometimes navigate to a new page so you have to reclick on the items you have expanded.
Wait, I knew about the comment stuff. They edited the /r/place DB as well?

> I'm still there because...the fediverse sucks, and I can still use my hacked up Reddit is Fun client and old.reddit.com, but if that set of circumstances changes, I don't anticipate sticking around.

Same exact scenario (but with Reddit Sync) for myself.
You've raised valid points about the cost and efficiency of our approach, which aims to make the LLM function as closely as possible to a human user. We chose this approach primarily for its compatibility with various websites, as it aligns closely with a website's intended audience, which is typically human.

Addressing complex website interactions is a key advantage of this approach. For instance, in the process of generating an auto insurance quote, the sequence of questions and their specifics can vary greatly depending on prior responses. A simple example is the choice of a foreign versus a California driver's license. Selecting a foreign license triggers additional queries about the country of issuance and expiry date, illustrating the complexity and branching nature of such web interactions.

However, we recognize the concerns about cost and are actively working on strategies to reduce it:
- Optimizing the context provided to the LLM
- Implementing caching mechanisms for certain repeated actions and only use LLMs when there's a problem
- Anticipating advancements in LLM efficiency and cost-effectiveness, with the hope of eventually finetuning our own models for greater efficiency
> The Reddit UI/app/experience hasn't changed in years

That's not true, the UI's gotten much worse.
Curious how you're finding it so far? I mowed my Note20 Ultra in June of last year and replaced it with a 14 Pro Max then just last month went and swapped back to an S24 Ultra. I found Apple to be too restrictive. The OS level stuff was one thing but the app store lacking things like emulators or vape apps because "Apple said so" rubbed me the wrong way, whether I need them or not. Plus I like writing python on my phone.
Well, I moved to northern Finland from the United States about 3 years ago, but that was mostly not driven by climate change worries. Mostly.
I’m wondering if “Boeing the business” is going to become a new term.
There is no such thing in the US as a truly free market.

While rising prices for the toilet paper would have quickly solved the shortage situation it would have elicited the wrath of local and national authorities. And those authorities can make life hell for anyone trying to charge whatever the market will bear.
yes but, most of them will still be hidden given they are longer than the cells they populate. Right?
Anyone else have access to the directed sale at IPO? It is an unusual position because shares purchased this way are not restricted formally or informally by a lockup period.
Just came across this. https://www.reddit.com/r/CPTSDmemes/s/qwhx4B7IJI

Which links to

https://www.pdasociety.org.uk/what-is-pda-menu/what-is-deman...

This is something I struggle with but didn't have words for either.

It's a constant struggle to keep healing.
All of these shenanigans occur because the laws favor employers over employees; there’s no protection, or at least, proper freedom of speech. But what can you expect when employees can be fired on the spot for asking to unionize?
Couldn't we just allow private policies on top of the socialized/nationalized plan? I'm pretty sure one of my Scottish uncles has a concierge plan in addition to whatever NHS offered.
I'm not sure why that matters? If others would offer the tribe a better offer, I'm sure they would accept it.
Warning, the video is footage of cicadas peeing. It's not a physics diagram or animation of the fluid dynamics involved.
European Audi A3 Buyers Have to Subscribe to Use Basic Car Features
I remember reading about the inquiry into the UK RAF Nimrod aircraft that came down in Afghanistan in 2006 killing its crew of 14 [0]. A significant finding was that recovering the design history and maintenance records involved trawling a massive number of filing cabinets / cardboard boxes scattered in sites across the UK, and was a significant cause of the missed opportunities to uncover the design flaws and near misses that preceded the crash. (long story short: internal fuel leak near a very hot exhaust pipe)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Royal_Air_Force_Nimrod_cr...