skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless there is a drop of moisture, then you throw it all away.

You might not want to set foot in your kitchen or bathroom then. Generally speaking cabinets (in the US) use particleboard frames. Higher end stuff will use plywood.

I went with IKEA's Sektion cabinets to replace some forty year old particleboard cabinets that warped after years of water damage from a burst pipe. They came with a twenty-five year warranty so there's clearly some expectation of longevity.
> On April 8, the morels were served partially cooked, with a hot, boiled sauce poured over the raw mushrooms and left to marinate for 75 minutes; and on April 17, they were served uncooked and cold-marinated.

All morels are poisonous when eaten raw. There is zero gap in knowledge here.
> Start funding replication.

I’m not convinced this fixes anything. Even when a result is genuine, it’s very easy to fail to replicate it. We all know this from software development: it’s a lot easier to say “couldn’t reproduce” about a genuine bug than it is to track down the precise context in which the bug actually manifests. So if you get rewarded for failing to replicate a result, all the fraudsters will do that. If you get funded only when you actually replicate the result, the fraudsters will pretend to replicate the result.
Of course not! Uber should be free to not operate in places where they don’t want to obey the local laws.
Fair point, I guess shame(?) on him for not being smarter with the proceeds
> man i would be mad as someone living in the city that these services are no longer available.

Before Uber, we had these things cal... oh never mind.
That's nice. The 3.1 version they used felt hard to immediately understand to me, a little too abstract.
Doesn't Apple dictate the price?
> Why is there no competition in the commercial-grade ice cream machine market?

There is plenty of competition in the commercial-grade ice cream machine market. There is no competition in the commercial-grade ice cream machine for mcdonalds franchisee market
I moved to a bifold front-carry and will never go back, sitting on a wallet is such a recipe for disaster.
> 180 SBS videos like SliceofLifeVR's content

I thought the Vision Pro didn't support SBS video? And that that was the reason why the people who like to bring up porn in every conversation about VR said it would fail.
Say what you will about Apple, but their recent MacBooks have been solid and more affordable than their offerings a decade ago. It’s great to see the prices come down to a more reasonable level.
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You use variable-length encodings—shorter encodings for more likely moves, longer encodings for ones that happen infrequently.

This is the thing the parent comment was referring to,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding
Besides, between the words of a random person and a multi-billion corporation, what one should believe is quite obvious.

But moderation frameworks in general suffer from this problem, where people just throw baseless accusations around, pigeonhole behaviors into small crimes, and publish calumnious claims. It's quite obvious why those problems appear, and why communities often end-up hating moderators. What isn't obvious is how to solve it.
They have not found the cause yet:

> Food specimens were tested for multiple substances, including volatile and nonvolatile organic compounds and enteric pathogens. Neither clinical testing nor food testing identified a causative agent.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7310a1.htm?s_cid=mm...
Why does the glue concern you?
GPUs, CPUs, Databases, and everything in-between
This is a much better solution than having vertical focused GPU clouds. You need other compute primitives for non-GPU workloads, Northflank offers the best of both worlds
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I wish this was updated for 2024

His RISC being “No” most would agree is somewhat incorrect though it seemed correct back in 2015.

But it kinda goes to show how these yes/maybe/no things can evolve unexpectedly over time and not be to taken as gospel that will stand the test of time.
> Apple's M chips have made RISC is a clear yes now.

ARM is not a pure RISC architecture (even though its instruction set is somewhat inspired by those ideas behind RISC that stood the test of time).
Honestly that price is an absolute steal for this machine.
> Better Idea: A Lemon Law for commercial equipment.

Even better idea:

Amend the DMCA to permanently add an exemption for bypassing DRM for repair purposes.

Of course it likely won't happen because those most impacted by the adjustment of the statute would buy a sufficient number of congress critters to block passage of the amendment.
Exploiting underpaid workers is not a service. Even if they are in tough situation with few better options.
Oo yeah im familiar. They suck. Thanks for the history lesson though!

It’s been shown drunk driving drops with uber because cabs will ignore you outside of a select few cities.

As a college student i had multiple cabs try to scam me or overcharge and this was if they would even show up at all leaving me to walk miles and in one case getting robbed at gun point because of it. But yeah lol its the same as uber.
I'd add to the list

(1) Quest is a game console

Quest is clearly a gaming device. It boot straight into the store. The re-opens the store at every opportunity. This means, trying to use it for non-gaming means you're constantly reminded your on a VR game console. It'd be like trying to use a PS5 for work. I kind of get why they did it but I hate it. I'm happy my iPhone does not boot into the store and does not go back to the store every time I go to the home screen.

(2) Quest doesn't care about productivity

This is kind of the same as 1 but, ... I actually try to use my Rift-S with my desktop for certain activities almost daily. I press the right controller's system button, close the home tab, close the library tab, close the store tab, open the desktop. Then I interact with the a few desktop apps. I copy or move files and I run certain apps that I've written that work reasonably well with point and click controls

But, I tried accessing my desktop on a Quest via the various link (wired and wireless) and it crashed 1 of 3 times. This is clearly a niche feature to Meta. Meta expects you're just playing games from their store.

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You can certainly argue Meta didn't get those things wrong but for me, they are wrong. The more productivity I can do on a Quest the more useful it is it me any many others. There are more phones than game consoles. IMO they should make the device be general purpose, not sell a "pro" version for productivity. Phone game sales far out shadow game console game sales. They don't need to design the Quest around a game console experience.
Sometimes when I am in a Teams call, I observe myself talking. I know for myself that I can get carried away whilst talking and that time passes faster then. My conscious self sometimes needs to interrupt my talky self with a 'nough explained signal, or even with a 'nough joking signal.

I read several studies that show that brains don't have a central point of command, so our true self can not exist (as one single origin). We are the sum of all our consciousnesses, similar to how a car is the sum of its parts.
That's a very interesting comment, because I've definitely felt that just playing a game on console (portable or plugged to a TV) or on PC. Sometimes games get so intense that I can't stop it and I have to force myself to get out of the world. I remember getting a massive headache playing Elden Ring and forcing myself to just stop the game.

Also, I've played Catan in VR and felt like I couldn't leave "like that". I had to finish the game and shake hands with the strangers I played with before leaving the game, it just felt like I was really there and it would have been rude to leave the game like that.

I did freak out the first time I joined a cinema room (can't remember the name of the game) as when I looked on my left side I saw people staring at me in the cinema room (which made me yell and it made everyone laugh, indicating to me that even my mic was on!)
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$699 for that laptop in 2024 is wild. That's an excellent laptop to use as a casual daily driver for the majority of the population.

Performs well, excellent build quality, decent screen, strong battery life, small form factor... Checks most boxes for many people!
Honestly, I am no longer interested in Apple due to its discontinuance of MacOS updates for older systems. My next purchase will either be a Framework or a Tuxedo.
> They are worth their commission.

It is really a big jump from “they add value” to “worth their commission”. When you see the amount of time and effort that goes into them adding value and compare to other parties that add value to a house, like trades building a new washroom or kitchen or garage for ballpark the same dollar values, and the effort required there, it shows how absurd the agent commission really is.
> It would not require prohibiting other products.

You're forgetting about distribution and margin. Your distributor is unlikely to offer both choices, and keeping the original product means selling less of the new so you're getting less favorable volume deals with both. For the hotel, it makes sense to concentrate that sales volume into a single contract for better discounts.
I just looked at the paper: the answer is no, floating point is not supported.
No, I was talking about the atmosphere before the wall came down, during the cold war. That paragraph was written in a bit of a confusing way now that I look at it, though.
Thank You: Cloud, etc. platforms for generous free tiers
I mentor some up and coming folks who are trying to get into the tech field. And when I came up I had servers in my bedroom making all sorts of noise and heat (9.1GB SCSI 10k rpm+ drives anyone?) running my own services. And of course we can do this today with far less heat and noise. But somehow it’s not the same. It’s more fun and rewarding to be able to host these things somewhere. And that’s where you all come in. You the builders the devs etc who monetize your work and platforms and do all sorts of cool stuff but then also turn around and offer very generous free tiers. Always free. Etc. of course we could put them on 5 dollar VPSes but you’d be surprised the hesitation broke college students have when it comes to these things when they don’t really know what they’re doing.

Anyway. Thank you. And let’s hope this continues.
Thanks for sharing! It looks like the linked google docs are not public, though.
>> by the battle between non-x86 and x86.

68000 -> PowerPC -> x86 -> arm

Apple has been through 4 architectures in 30 years. Given enough money and tyranny (as in "were doing this" kind of leadership, vs committee) its apparently not that terrible.
Absolutely. Companies like Walmart and McDonald's take advantage of this.

https://www.worldhunger.org/report-walmart-workers-cost-taxp...
Possibly apocryphal, but I'd heard the reason most Marriott (and their associated brands) have Pepsi vs. Coke is 'cause Marriott Sr. asked Coca-Cola for a loan some years ago and they refused him.

As the joke goes, "... is Pepsi okay?"
No, they dictate the MSRP and may not give you discounts if you violate it, but if you check Best Buy they always are at the Apple Store prices, or lower (often lower) - sometimes even so low as to beat out Apple refurbished with new.
Is there anything like Hacker News for literature?
You just need to enumerate for all possible states, the possible transitions and evaluate the probabilities for them. How many could there possibly be? Store in a small database and look em up on the fly. Easy peasy.
> It’s great to see the prices come down to a more reasonable level

Purchased new, it is a nearly 4 year old laptop after all.
Is there such a thing as a franchisee Union?

A quick search suggests no for McDonalds.

It seems like there should be some trade group responsible for collectively bargaining with the main corporation, as a check against kickbacks.
> Do you like that you dont own your content any more?

I don't know what you're talking about, I hold a copyright to all of my content, (except the content I produce at work) even if I decide to license a bunch of it.

> Do you like that it gets sold to open AI to make the next ML power draw?

What about the DMCA enabled that?

> We have the compute power and the networking to decentralize all of it. That means ownership and with that comes personal responsibility. It's not a trivial problem but it's a solvable one today.

I think people still want to have conversations using services on the internet. Even email isn't decentralized enough that it would alleviate concerns about third party content. To decentralize enough so that third-party content isn't a legal concern without DMCA, you'd essentially be asking everyone in the world to run federated services with a maximum server size of one user. I don't think we have the technology to make that actually work for the average user.
Just being a manager in the fast food industry is a really bad job, also. Overworked and underpaid. I wouldn't want anything to do with any of it.
I think of the Vision Pro as the 1984 Mac of VR/AR. The original Mac was next to useless and, adjusted for inflation, cost twice what the Vision Pro does. But it changed the world.

(Yes, it was near useless. The original Mac had 128k of RAM, which allowed for only the smallest of applications. It wasn't until the Mac 512k came out that people could do real work on these machines.)

The next rev of Vision products from Apple, or maybe the rev after that, will just be leaps and bounds beyond what anyone else is doing in the space. No new paradigm of computing truly begins until Apple starts it.
Not necessarily.

The barrier to earning income by working for Uber/Lyft is much lower than other jobs. Workers are not fungible. Some people make better employees than others. Those who are already on public assistance are more likely to be less reliable/capable.

If these folks could get a job with higher wages, wouldn't they already be doing that? Especially considering the freedom from forced scheduling that driving provides.
Which legally speaking, hogwash.

This link covers 15 years of DMCA abuse, which you say doesn't apply to you.

https://www.eff.org/pages/unintended-consequences-fifteen-ye...

Your ignorance of this terrible law is not immunity of this law. Apple could as easily destroy your device with no recourse, or sue YOU personally for "defeat of technical prevention".
Yeah, back in 2011, I bought iPhone 4S, not 4, for exactly that, because of Siri. Expecting it to work as I imagined back then. Siri is still not there, 13 years / generations of iPhones later.
Buy a Quest 3, VR is already here, not sure what you're talking about
Not suggesting Switzerland is immune, and your example perhaps makes citation of Patriot Act a poor choice, but the US has plenty of awful laws to select from that Switzerland has not yet decided to copy (thankfully).

Unfortunately, even Switzerland eventually as we know it will collapse, as all governments do. I do not suggest the Swiss system of government is perfect or even great, only that it is considerably more resilient to breaking vs its Euro peers, for precisely the same reason that US republicanism/Democracy has lasted: Both were forged in the embers of of wildly disparate groups of people to agree to join into a republic/federation.

As a happy accident of those concessions, a lot of powers normally held by the bipartisan ruling body, were stripped away, and therefore, you have 2 democracies thus far that are winning in the test of time.

Also, regarding a canton not allowing vote by X - not going to condone it, but it makes my point. Other countries ban the vote by felons, or by certain classes of people. Yet, they are still called democracies. The only difference is that the agreement to strip voting power is bipartisan in 1 case, and in switzerland it was a niche who approves of it. The fact that Switzerland allows that level of extreme disagreement is the reason why the democratic confederation will persist, for far longer than other neighboring democracies that are not willing to allow the fringes of its population to experiment with self rule, vs conform with the bipartisan viewpoint.
If the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light, how are particles not traveling faster than the speed of light indeed with zero acceleration relative to the expansion?

If the Copenhagen interpretation is correct, particle states are correlated after a photonic beam splitter; if you measure entangled photons after a beam splitter, their states are still linked.

If virtual particle states are entangled with particle states in black holes or through ER=EPR bridges, is there effectively FTL?

There is FTL within dielectric antennae.
But having laws still works better than to just hope that no greedy businessmen would ever want to exoit workers.
What makes you so special?

This is merely an entitled rant made by a surplus elite that has finally realized they're not very elite if conditions aren't absolutely perfectly in their favor. The real elite look inward and improve themselves. Only the pathetic, mediocre, and unimpressive point their fingers outward.

99% of the US population has it 10x harder and still manages to raise good kids. I can see why most people have nothing but contempt for tech workers.
McDonald's hit by 'technology outage' in UK, Australia, Japan and China
Knowing how hard Walmart presses their suppliers on price, I would be surprised if there wasn’t some amount of compromise between the two companies here. I haven’t looked at model numbers but it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s a Walmart exclusive build (or if it isn’t… either makes sense).
In some environments, not-building stuff you might want to do could include launching/supervising long-lived processes (services), connecting networked filesystems and mounting them somewhere appropriate, firing up VMs, etc. Some of this you can definitely do with direnv but if you want reproducibility with those aspects of your environment, building it on top of Nix seems like a more natural fit to me.

There are other tools that compete in this space right now (devenv.sh, flake.parts, devbox), and for simple use cases a basic direnv integration might be just fine. But the role Flox is aiming for here seems pretty clear imo.
Yeah, I've never, ever understood why anyone would want to do that.
Dat week ik heel goed :(
Using the probability distribution of moves at any given position, so that more likely moves take less space, will result in saving space on average.

This is the same as Huffman coding, just applied to a different domain.

For that matter, it might also resemble LLM compression of input text, although LLM compression is intentionally lossy and the above schemes are not.
This is the kind of discussion that will get us micro-cybernetics in that ~1 year window.
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My take - if the US is still the "land of the free" then the government should not be banning citizens access to apps.

The idea of politicians in the house and senate (or president) deciding which apps to ban from the app stores will likely lead to similar actions against websites, from the article:

As written, any “website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application” that is “determined by the President to present a significant threat to the National Security of the United States” is covered.

"National security" is a nebulous term that feels like an excuse to ban competitors on behalf of lobbyists at Meta or elsewhere, this is not in the interest of the majority of citizens.
Presumably those other businesses are able to generate more revenue per employee. Otherwise, they'd go out of business (which happens all the time), as Uber and Lyft are doing here. What do you believe their profit margins are? Uber's latest investor update says theirs was ~2.9% last year, though that number probably requires a decent amount of familiarity with the business to interpret.

I can't imagine investors would be very happy about them choosing to posture instead of making money with their investment if that's what they were doing.

Obviously investors want better margins. Treasuries are paying 4-5% guaranteed, so why invest in Uber to make 3%?
IKEA's cheapened their offerings quite a bit over the years. Pre-pandemic, used to be you could buy a solid wood butcher block and solid wood cabinet doors and fronts. Now? The butcher block is particleboard with end grain themed veneer and the closest to solid wood cabinet hardware you'll get is a set of bamboo drawer fronts.
>Morel of the story

Surely intentional.
Fiber is essential fuel for all kinds of microbes that produce immune-modulating molecules and neurotransmitter precursors for us.

>However, fiber also takes up valuable minerals, prohibiting their uptake. I do not think that the situation is as clear cut as you present it.

If this were actually a concern, it would be beneficial to extract all nutrients from whole foods and consume them as a pill (vitamin) instead of eating our nutrition. This has not borne out in extensive research despite billions of dollars invested into developing and marketing nutrient supplements.
It would be cool if it actually worked like that (as a low resolution preview of things you can get on the actual museum website) - in this case the one offered on the museum website appears to be identical. Same low resolution, same watermark. Perhaps they could save people time by tagging entries that they had already received in low or watermark damaged quality so they could be filtered out of the search.
Best Buy on the other hand doesnt have every model that Apple sells, if you want a maxed out Mac anything you gotta go through Apple.
Extremely rich, maybe. But since the value of a person's data goes up with their income just having the ability to pay extra won't save you.
Thanks for the links. I watched some of his videos where he explained how DataColada did their forensic investigation in data manipulation.

What amazes me is how simple was the fraud (or at least the ones reported by Pete!). They basically just opened an excel file, started from the top, changed some random numbers, until they reached the effect they aimed for!!! Really? What about those that can do more sophisticated data manipulation?
Sorry got my details mixed up, Tresor had a staircase that led downstairs to the vault!
I'd agree with this and add that pattern matching and functional interfaces are additional examples of tools from the FP toolbox being subsumed into existing programming languages.

Pure functional programming seems tempting. In small projects it can produce beautiful, readable code. In large projects I've only seen it result in messes, and I still haven't decided whether that's due to limitations of functional purity, due to the team (and myself) misusing features that we don't understand, or both.
I believe high profile academic fraud to be worse for the world than financial fraud, even.

Financial fraud misappropriates one sum of money. Academic fraud can misappropriate massive amounts of resources when decision makers rely on bullshit ideas
Then chose to eat something else, you're good. I'm not seeing your choice here as in any way a worse issue than anyone else (such as someone on a vegetarian or halal diet) faces already without this kind of special treatment.

And I don't think you're engaging fully with the questions above in parent or grandparent post. I will refrain from repeating myself when you can always re-read.
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Amateur Formula One? Is that really a thing? How do they class the cars? Every year the cars are different due to rule changes. Unless everybody has a used F1 car from the same year, it seems like the cars could be pretty unmatched.