skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The LACK RACK https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=eth0.nl

Though I'm also going to point out that a LACK side table ($13 now) for 8 years is a rather good deal.

The internals are revealed on the Ikea page too: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/lack-side-table-black-brown-801...
They do this while performing the burn of the (in this case) 2nd stage. "No, that's inefficient" is misleading, IMHO. They also waste some delta-V by starting the circularization burn a little bit early.

You surely know that, but mathematically it is unavoidable to have a 2nd burn at the apoapsis to have an orbit (with a periapsis > the initial launch altitude, minus gravity and atmospheric losses), albeit it may start earlier (while wasting a slight amount of delta-v).
I wouldn’t go that far. The first portion (the assembly interpreter) looks doable in something like Python. But I’m unsure how you’re going to manage the other topics.
The definition appears to be more for the government than marketing.

> Raising the speed metric is important because it helps the commission determine which areas in the country are receiving adequate internet speeds, and if more government funding is necessary. In 2015, the FCC raised the metric from 4Mbps/1Mbps to 25Mbps/3Mbps. But since then, US senators, government watchdogs, and FCC officials have urged the commission to raise the metric even higher, citing the US’s growing reliance on internet services and apps.
So developer wants to build on land they legally own, indigenous complain and get the city to block development and then to use tax-payer dollars to help them buy it, and then they will turn around and develop it themselves?

Is this not just blatant extortion?
I think it's because it was more of an awesome moonshot project that didn't really fit into NASA's shifting goals at the time and with the shuttle overshadowing everything else that happened then. No one was really expecting this much from the probes
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New caddy-security feature allowing to mark with redirect URIs are being trusted and which are now.
Yes that’s exactly right
>No one in Texas wants porn bans, abortion bans, IVF bans, restrictive marijuana laws

I grew up extremely religious in Texas... I can assure you that there are plenty of people who want these things.

The good news is things are changing. Some members of my family who effectively spent their entire lives trying to overturn Roe, are now totally overwhelmed and distraught by the after effects, and what an awful person Donald Trump is. Truly a dog-that-caught-the-car situation.
A slight aside: Something that blew my mind was the scams on YouTube showing mirrors of the official SpaceX stream with an AI generated Elon Musk voice overlaid right before the launch asking the viewers to donate Bitcoin!

AI scamming is now mainstream, front and centre on historic moments roughly on par with a Space Shuttle launch or a Moon landing.

Humanity is heading to the stars once more, making machine minds, and what the general public actually gets out of these miracles of technology is a cryptocurrency scam.
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This works great until (1) your largest customer outgrows the largest available DB (happens sooner than you'd think for large companies) or (2) you do need transactions across different customers, say to facilitate some kind of sharing. Going all-in on the isolated tenant strategy means when you hit one of these cases it's a nightmare to unwind and rearchitect your entire DB layer.
In NL we have IDIN. A website can use it to verify age or address information. I don't think that any porn-websites are using it, but technically this should do the job.

IDIN is set up by all the Dutch banks. You check in via your own bank using an IDIN link. IDIN will do an age-check to verify that you're 18 or older. IDIN can verify age, name, address and contact info. You need a bank account, and the bank has checked your identity and age, so this is guaranteed to work.

Maybe you don't want that the bank knows that you visit a porn website, but that's another question.
Local housing policy only sets housing costs explicitly if they override market forces e.g. via rent control. There are plenty of examples of how the market responds to this type of intervention, by not building more supply, letting existing supply fall into disrepair and constricting uncontrolled supply, resulting in much higher market rate.

In general, housing policy affects supply, and market forces decide the prices. Notably increasing supply doesn't always lower prices as demand is elastic.
Tech industry has long burned through its goodwill. I don't trust that such securities will only stop at "adult sites". I don't trust the implementation to only verify the RTA header and not be used to track a bunch of other data, on the web and on your computer habits.

It doesn't even fix the "problem". Multiple accounts can use the same device so hardware level checks either have to block all or nothing. These kinds of tech forget people share devices, at home and to each other
I just spent about $700 having new cushions made for a 50+ year old Danish Teak sofa that I inherited from my grandparents. The original cushions were long gone, but the wooden frame was still in great condition.

I sourced high-quality foam and wool upholstery fabric from Maharam and took those to one of the best upholsterers/furniture restorers in Los Angeles. They did a wonderful job and now I have a super-comfortable couch with many good childhood memories, that should last me another 25 years before I need to replace the cushions again.

Point being, get a classic old piece and restore it. It will last a lifetime.
Peter Thiel Turned a Roth IRA into a $5B Tax-Free Piggy Bank (2021)
I had to trim the original title a bit: "Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank"
Kallax is cardboard? Those brilliant bastards.

Honestly those cubes at least the 4x4 are perfectly fine. And cardboard is a hell of a lot more sustainable than solid wood and probably particle board
I'm a bit late at replying, I can see some others have posted links re: TikTok & Teens / Organic support for Palestine.

There was a slew of Israeli propaganda via YouTube ads post Oct 7, here's an article. https://www.reuters.com/world/graphic-pro-israel-ads-make-th...

A lot of the claims in the videos were later denounced by the Israeli government i.e. Hamas beheaded 40 babies etc. To me theres plenty of signs towards a strong misinformation campaign. Unashamingly.
I mean, I wasn't offended, but I was also expecting a diagram and was a little surprised to just see high quality cicada piss footage.
I have a leather Benchmade Modern couch that has lasted half a decade no problem now. I think they switched facilities/materials at one point though ..but I got grandfathered into the real wood, better facility when I got my second couch (I called and asked)
Traditional machine vision developers: I have 10,000 problems. You can’t do this.

Neural network people: watch this space, I have a shotgun.
They won’t put starship into orbit until they can test relight. They won’t risk, nor would they be allowed to risk putting it up there without a demonstrated ability to bring it back down in a controlled manner.
I wrote a blog post a while back about reading these dumps: https://search.feep.dev/blog/post/2021-09-04-stackexchange

Presumably they have a script that does something similar to that process, and then writes the resulting data into a predefined table structure.
Glad to hear everyone agrees that most couches are pretty subpar. I bought $10,000 worth of stuff from a high end furniture place because the French girl started working there. Then that boat got stuck in the Suez Canal, the shipping container finally arrived months late, and it was empty. So I got a full refund and she still got her huge commission, and after reading this the couch probably sucked.
I wonder if it's more about convincing yourself that it faithfully follows the same workflow an analyst would follow. It's always possible to miss stuff, so the best a person or a machine can do is be demonstrably methodical, it sounds like... and that is easier to test. Unless there is really some magic tacit step that human analyst perform to get better answers.
Give the kids some credit.

There's a generation of us that got started with QBASIC at 8 years old, which did significantly less hand-holding than this.
> No one in Texas wants porn bans, abortion bans, IVF bans, restrictive marijuana laws and everything else going on down there

You sound ripe for some travel! It's not a bad place to visit!

You may want to believe what you wrote because it helps those of us with contrary preferences to pretend that we're just better aligned to some rational truth or something, but no: there are many people in Texas and elsewhere who sincerely believe that each of those things is good and something that they want for their community.

The number or loudness of those people change when stirred up by politicians, and sometimes ideas that weren't widely considered previously are wholly seeded as part of a political strategy, but that doesn't really change that most people are fully sincere in their beliefs and that their beliefs can sometimes be radically different than your own.
Those desks do have hydraulics: https://www.ikea.com/au/en/p/bekant-desk-sit-stand-white-s09...

Ikea's goods usually come in different price ranges with the most expensive often not being 'cheap' but 'cheap given the quality'.
That being said, often their cheapest stuff is the best value for money because it's so cheap that it lasting more than a year would be a miracle (but they usually do!).
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There needs to be a balance though. You could say the same about money, after all. It is used in probably every transaction involving CSAM. That doesn't mean the FED (and ECB, and ...) are to blame.

Nor does it mean that the FED needs to start sabotaging money to make it impossible. It there is a very low-impact way to do that, fine. If there is a high impact proposal ... we need to be more careful.
Absolutely. Take my two kids, they are wildly different,and so equal. One can focus a bit the other is impossible to get focused. He gets distracted when doing a wee, is astonishing, sometimes I'm speechless.
UBlock Origin -> My Filters, add this:

accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe

the google popups go away, but if you click on a "login with google" button it will still work.

(I use that filter with Firefox. It wouldn't surprise me if Chrome's bundled spyware somehow breaks this.)
Do you like working in robotics? How is the work, pay, environment, and industry?

I've entertained the idea of entering that space as a software engineer. No real experience in robotics though.
It's an interesting endeavor, but there are some obvious safety concerns.

Within Prokaryotes, there is a lot of horizontal gene transfer. What if some of the synthetic sequences get into other organisms and spread out?
The link you posted says the last improvement to their process was done in 2004.

So in the last 20 years, the vitrification has not gotten better. Is it because no one has been doing any research, and if so, why not?

If you look at any other hard but important problem: curing cancer, cold fusion, quantum computing, none of these have been solved, but there has been a ton of intensive research in the last 20 years, and good progress, in each of these fields.
> magical '#g' filesystem.

Whats magical about the segmet(3)[1] device? The '#' devices are kernel file servers. There's no magic.

[1] http://man.9front.org/3/segment
Apple purchased an AI startup this year
I dunno there's a lot of layers to "sovereignty" some of which FNs have deemed to test and others they have declined to do so.

It's not just land issues. For example in other areas some FNs have wrestled back control over their child services from the Federal government.

But regarding land, it used to be that you could "pre-empt" "Crown Land" and get permission to build a cabin on it and take ownership of it, but that hasn't been a thing for quite a while, likely because the Crown realized that their foundational arguments for owning "Crown land" was pretty shakey.

At the moment FNs in BC largely seem interested in regaining title over their land and regaining a fair degree of power over how it is used.

It's entirely possible for a jurisdiction to have ownership and control over land and to still be within the context and laws of the State called Canada.
Is it super heavy? I've noticed weight often equals how long something will last in good condition, and old furniture is often way heavier and bulkier.
> Don't spend a lot of time faking white papers that say how you're going to make money 20 years from now.

In the ZIRP era, it was much more profitable for founders to fake white papers about being profitable, than actually being profitable.

I think it still is, but not to the same degree.
Hah, some ahole must have reported it. It was working fine a few hours ago. Can you even claim copyright of a 70 years old movie? Oh well.
Social security. Public education. Public transportation. Walkable cities. Strict gun regulation. Not spending half of our budget in the military and police. Laws that apply to rich people. Slavery (in prison) and child labor (in farms) not protected by laws and constitution. Not relying on wars to impulse the economy. Not having our city centers crawling with desperate, dispossessed people. Probably there’s more.
Ikea has to engineer it. They are a global company and they can invest in engineering to avoid as many returns/refunds. It's worth it to them.

So while the materials are cheap and the style not high end, from what I've seen they maximize the engineering to make it durable.
All the hotel brands have design schemes, and contract with certain designers who the hotel owners have to buy from.

For example:

https://www.charterfurniture.com/products/hospitality/desk-t...

https://www.taisenfurniture.com/ihg-hotel-bedroom-set/
lol.. probably
It really depends. IKEA runs the entire range of very temporary to actually pretty good. The trick is knowing which is which, although price points are usually a good indicator.
My org uses codegen as a starting point for one of our test layers.

It works for us probably because we sidestep the pain points you list - the environments we run in are pristine complete copies of known datasets, we remove as many sources of randomness as possible, and our environment flakiness level is very low.

They still break but usually because the locators in use have been chosen poorly (or we've made planned changes to a page/component)

We're a web based b2b saas that runs an instance of the entire environment for each of our customers. Our non prod setup consists of a bajillion static test environments but more importantly we use testcontainers to spin up the transient test environments from database snapshots. Using the recorder on the static environments (before the transient ones existed) _was_ a pain
I hate to only complain if I don't have any ideas on how to fix it, but just think of the absurdity of the situation we currently have: thousand of employers are frustrated because they can't find any programmers, and thousands of programers are frustrated because they can't find a job.

Getting a job is a core skill requirement for programmers, and finding programmers is a core skill requirement for companies. Its really hard to believe that this is the best we can do.

> Resumes still filter out "bad" candidates.

I really hate to try your patience, you've been a great conversation partner here. But I put it to you, all those thousand resumes did you absolutely no good. I mean, there's probably something I'm missing, because I don't know the particulars of your situation.

But from what you've said, all the effort and expense you put into screening those thousand resumes, and all the effort and expense put into interviewing them, did you no good. Expensive, time consuming...and ultimately yielding no value at all. I really hate to put it into such stark terms, but man, things gotta change. Even if you don't know how to do it, you've got to find somebody who does who can give you some good advice.
Especially because Option 3 lets you go waaaay farther on vertical scaling, since you can get native NVMe drives (they mentioned hitting IOPS limits for RDS), more exotic instance classes with far more RAM, and do stuff like ZFS for native compression and snapshots.
I second your comment on high-quality foam. If you're looking at re-doing some old furniture or having your own made, study up on foam - not just the density - which is important - but also the type and grade. Decent stuff should last 25+ years - and be more comfortable along the way.

(A little tip - the density you want for proper comfort varies by the thickness of the cushion, the weight of the intended users, and the whether it's the seat bottom or the back. The back needing a softer foam.)
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> With restaurants it's tricky - sometimes you just need to take a chance. There is some old-school magic in that.

Absolutely agree, and I try to do this more often now. A visit somewhere new and untested for lunch or dinner isn't like a product purchase, where I might regret a bad purchase for months or years. If a restaurant doesn't work out, I've only lost an hour or two of my time, and a bit of cash that likely still went to providing me sustenance, even if the experience and taste was poor.

And if it turns out to be great -- well... great!
This doesn't cover the very real digging for extra charges that occurs when someone is subjected to the legal system. We see people all the time get caught for minor offenses and then upon further examination also are found guilty of loads of other things. The fact that parallel construction exists makes it even more egregious.

I even agree with you, violations of this won't be anyone's primary charge, but I might disagree that we should conclude that its existence won't affect people.

Besides, like a lot of these laws, the primary consequence is a chilling effect where porn sites aren't accessible and in that light it's an effective law.
I've seen a couple around Berlin and they're noticably large. In French cities the streets/cars/parking spaces are even smaller.
> One, video game consoles have no pretense to being generalized computing devices. They are more similar to appliances

I repair all of my other appliances, why should this particular type of appliance be any different?
Is this a Handmaid's Tale reference?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale#Settin...

I haven't read the book so had to look it up, this seems the most plausible reference
Fox Rothschild AI Chief Talks 'Terrifying' Deepfakes, Biased AI
Apparently it is also the same service that Mozilla Monitor uses, as per ToS. Big yikes.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/subscription...
Amazing job! This is really useful. I like that you didn’t hide code and start them with a real example. Great job!
This is an oversimplification. The north also had an economy that made quite a bit of bank off of southern slave labor: mills in New England would not make sense if not for slave hands in the south.
Thank you for this well written comment. I was not aware that passkeys are developing in the exact direction i feared, when i first read about them.
Yeah I don’t get the complaints about IKEA instructions. They have the best furniture-assembly directions I’ve seen.

They have a lot in common with old LEGO set instructions. Maybe people who hate them didn’t do a bunch of that as a child?
This is possible to do, but lots of engineering. You can provide the experience of a single DB while each tenant can be placed in their own dedicated Postgres compute. This would help the application to stay the same while tenants are moved to independent computes (you can even move only a few tenants and leave the rest on a shared Postgres compute).
I don't really see how this is that challenging. It's just another jurisdiction with its own governance structure, just like what happens when you pass between regional districts, provinces and municipalities and the underlying various laws change.
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It's both funny and sad when people find out how the real world works and get all indignant. "How dare they do a thing they're legally allowed to do! Rabble rabble rabble!!!" Glassdoor is trying to make money off you, like every other free site on the internet, and they will do whatever the law allows them to. Welcome to planet Earth.

Meanwhile, all the commenters in here are overreacting as usual, clearly not having read any of the terms of the website, like the part where it says your name is not disclosed until you explicitly elect to share it. But hey let's not let facts stop us from freaking out.
Indeed! I just want to thank SpaceX for giving me yet another "This looks like insane Hollywood special effects but it's real" moment.
the power users post because they have an audience. take away the audience of normies, and you've just got a bunch of nerds trying to entertain each other.

that's basically what lemmy is right now, and it's no fun.
Separate logical databases, within the same RDBMs, so sharing CPU, disks, RAM etc
Now do DuckDuckGo!
Structurally they're fine, and can hold a fair amount of weight. Just treat them well; don't cut/drill into them or let them near water (the cardboard gets soft), don't overload them, and don't move/lift them while they're filled with heavy objects. While they're cheaply made, they're not among IKEA's worst products, I think.
Steam games are removed all the time, why are you confident they won't be removed?
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>> it set me back $6,000.

The issue is that most modern households in the U.S. can not hack that kind of pricetag for a sofa / couch. Hell, I could never spend that kind of jack on a couch, even if I literally saved up for it (which would take years)... it is just far too much of a percentage of my income for one furniture item.

So, how do we solve that issue (e.g. its good, but if it is 10% of your gross annual income, how could you afford it)? Either people need to get paid more, or ???
You could definitely use this for upsampling negative prompts, though I haven't tested that much. In theory, future T2I models shouldn't need to be negatively prompted as much; I find it's better to focus on really high quality positive prompts, as that is closer to the captions the model was trained on.

You can take a look at the dataset here: https://huggingface.co/datasets/roborovski/upsampled-prompts... Roughly 5k samples were needed for the smaller ones at a minimum, filtered from the 95k total generated.
I don’t get the impression that existing space-based telescopes are bottlenecked by bandwidth.
ADLs CEO named TikTok in Israels misinformation war online, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKbMtVKq18I

I agree I see it as very much about the US preserving power and control. We've seen Instagram and Facebook changing their algorithms and banning pro-Palestinian videos, or limiting reach. [1]

TikTok is thorn which needs resolving ASAP. The sudden interest in 'fixing' TikTok and the Israel-Palestine war shouldn't be overlooked. Especially when we have high ranking officials loosing sleep about this issue and publicly expressing their discontent in interviews.

[1] Meta's Systemic Palestine Censorship https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/...
Check out Asianometry on YouTube. Covers a whole range of topics I've found very interesting.